Engineering Finance Leadership Outsourcing 
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. Adopt software and hardware that automatically detect and apply patches.
Strategy Driven
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Provide leadership. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Outsourcing, privatizing and collaborating plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. The business you’re in.
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Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2017
The Autonomous Outsourcer. Business process outsourcing becomes business process algorithmization. The same sensibilities and economic opportunities that make outsourcing appealing become managerial principles for computational autonomy. It’s a different kind of engineering.”
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 21, 2017
Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. The question is: For which skills will the CEO build deep personal expertise, and which will they outsource to other founding team members?”
Strategy Driven
MARCH 2, 2012
With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. tax jurisdiction. Breakthrough innovations in high tech certainly have a powerful impact on performance, but they are quite rare.
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