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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2013

as a engineer? The engineer sees themselves as a tiny spot of ignorance surrounded by a vast see of knowledge. Gilbert ‘Human Competence’. There are three lines from recent reading and research I’m doing that keep haunting me and have made me explore my frame of thinking and consulting. Eli Goldratt ‘The Choice’.

Engineering

Engineering Goldratt Gilbert Team Building

Human Competence: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Human Competence: Engineering Worthy Performance Thomas F. Gilbert Crown Business (2007) How and why the behavior engineering model “is really an outline of a performance troubleshooting sequence” Note: The comments that follow discuss the “Tribute Edition” (2007) of a book first published in 1996, after its author’s death.

Gilbert

Gilbert Books Engineering Review

Leadership Lessons in Classlessness and Class

Next Level Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Apparently, Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert thought the same thing because it wasn’t long before he had posted a scathing open letter to the Cavs’ fans on the team’s official web site. In contrast to the seedy and classless drama engineered by James and Gilbert, this weekend marked the passing of Bob Sheppard.

Class

Class Gilbert Leadership Letter

Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

Creating a disruptive growth engine ("Transformation B"). Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Transformation is hard work. Paradox.

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Gilbert Company Uncertainty Long-term

Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

After all, the first prototype of a digital camera was created in 1975 by Steve Sasson, an engineer working for … Kodak. Maybe in 2010 it would have lured a young engineer from Google named Kevin Systrom to create a mobile version of the site. But that doesn’t square with reality.

Technology

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model

Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here. This is hard stuff.

Gilbert

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model

The Biases You Don't Know You Have

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

In the words of Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert , ".in Gilbert proposes that the correspondence bias can be traced to four root causes. Evidence shows that we are engineered to make quick judgments about people and situations, then correct errors as more data becomes available. The result is an exaggerated assessment.

Gilbert

Gilbert Constraint Project Learning-by-Doing

You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

At Best Buy in the early 2000s, Julie Gilbert was in charge of an internal network aimed at developing female leaders. Eager to change that, Gilbert encouraged her group to reach out to women customers. Meanwhile, they’re pragmatic enough to engineer ways for people to gain some direct personal benefits along the way.

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Gilbert Participative Cooper Network Economy

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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.

Productivity

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software

When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business.

Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation

Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. It cannot be measured or perfectly engineered. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. What is your secret letter?

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Gilbert Mission Statement Letter Software

Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble suggest that companies can consciously manage the balance between the "performance engine" (that minimizes mistakes) and the "discovery team" (that encourages experiments) by being clear about what core capabilities should be forgotten and borrowed. Each theory has its advocates, but each feels incomplete.

Innovation

Innovation Gilbert Govindarajan Christensen

What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Gilbert

Gilbert Insurance Tools Technology

What the Media Industry Can Teach Us About Digital Business Models

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Its powerful search engine serves as a platform that instantaneously brings others’ content to users. There’s a reason Innosight Advisor Clark Gilbert, who demonstrated the value of this approach as he transformed the Deseret News and Digital Media, calls this the toughest problem in business today.

Business Model

Business Model Media Industry Advertising

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What Changes When AI Is So Accessible That Everyone Can Use It?

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