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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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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

Organizations in every industry and geography are increasingly indebted to external talent, whom we term agile talent , to augment their resources in strategic areas. One approach that 10X has recommended is creating a roving CTO or project managers. Business reliance on the freelancer economy continues to grow.

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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. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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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. Talent tech raises urgency for further talent innovation.

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

Harvard Business Review

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt.

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