Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

In the meantime, we had successfully engineered sensor technology that allowed our residential ceiling fans to respond to the indoor environment, including changes in temperature and humidity, as well as occupants’ motion. In our minds, the whole package was a tremendous leap forward in terms of efficiency, convenience, and comfort.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Early Adopters Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

As the use of external talent increases, so does the need for more efficient ways to find, hire, and manage contingent workers as well as integrate them into the company’s full-time employees and teams. Both benefit from having a stronger, more direct relationship with each other.

MBO 8

MBO Long-term Human Capital Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

But the opportunities for data-science-enabled efficiencies and innovation are too important to defer or deny. The resulting insights completely changed the internal dialogues between sales, customer support, maintenance engineering. Stop hunting for that data science unicorn and/or silver bullet.

BHAG 8

BHAG Software Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. They rarely have the time they need to resolve their different ways of thinking.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

GM ignored the move to more efficient cars for nearly 10 years. When Jobs said, "Fuck the channel," he taught me something: our job as innovative business leaders is to manage the present while inventing the future. Nokia and RIM missed the smartphone application market by a mile. Pilot, invest, experiment.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 31, 2018

One of the crucial elements in any website is the way it looks, the way visitors are able to navigate through the site’s pages, and the way in which you use standard coding features to ensure your website runs efficiently and features high up on Google search results. All this is controlled by the quality of web design you employ.

How To 56

How To Media Content Advertising 56

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

Engineers at Google might be getting paid more than engineers elsewhere because they’re better engineers. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. Bloom thinks outsourcing is a cause as well. Instead, Bloom says, GE has specialized in engineering and coding.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old. But it also means evaluating whether you may be better served by bringing outsourced capabilities back in-house.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

When the engineers and operators they hire lack real-world building experience, the organization has to teach them. Manufacturers are therefore faced with a daunting choice: outsource the design and testing to countries where tactile intelligence is still high, or fill the knowledge gap of new hires in the U.S.

Engineering 8

Engineering Competitive Advantage Knowledge Management Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Through its outsourcing agreements, Airtel had shrunk to its core. An HBR Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient.

Brand 9

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 9

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

Groups facilitate networking and shared learning, and are efficient, but may miss the mark for some. The challenge for business schools will be that most of their faculty don’t have coaching expertise and credentials, so when it’s outsourced, it’s often not fully integrated into the program. Senior leadership development.

Leadership Development 256

Leadership Development Development Leadership Globalization 256

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8