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

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

Harvard Business Review

While the jury is still out on the long-term impact of many of the talent tech experiments we have witnessed, we have observed five core lessons from those firms that seem to be positioning themselves most effectively to reap their benefits: Talent tech adoption must be driven by business leaders, not the C-suite or corporate functions.

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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

The implication for IT leaders is that for horizontal technology, like collaboration and enterprise social networking, look past time and cost savings and track longer term, often unanticipated payoffs. In collaborations systems, for instance, don''t overly engineer processes so that they constrain a system''s ability to adapt.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. Agile software development.