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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

You’re not cut out for engineering. But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. You’re not a data scientist. Here’s how.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

The original creation of Sephora.com was largely outsourced, and we didn’t have an internal digital development team when I joined. So, one of the first things I did — and something I’d recommend to anyone who’s serious about building a digital brand — was to bring web development in-house. What haven’t you solved?

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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