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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Indeed, women software engineers significantly differ from men in terms of personality traits, which are related to higher job performance, ethics, and creativity.

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The Pros And Cons Of People Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

Some big data projects have aimed to solve important problems, like tracking how diseases spread, easing traffic on roads, and figuring out ways to catch fake transactions. This kind of data can also show where there are problems in areas like engineering, making new products, and running factories.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

Provide clear direction: One of the key directives for products managers is to provide clear direction to the engineering/development teams. A key to giving clear direction is for product managers to project their confidence and full support to the work engineering is doing.

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Three steps to the next big opportunity

Lead on Purpose

’ Be the person at your company who is willing to do new things, like taking on the project that nobody wants. — The Product Management Perspective: The ideas for this post came from a question posed to me about how an engineer can become a product manager. Make the effort; take the steps.

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Launching a new product

Lead on Purpose

Their newest online certificate, A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design is authored by Professor Peter Jackson, Director of Systems Engineering at Cornell University.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. and Patricia E.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. In the project stage, the idea gains funding, labor, and attention; senior managers become aware of the idea. As the U.S.