Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Can We Engineer Them Right Out of Business? You’ll be glad you did.

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. Technology has tremendous potential to be the engine of increasing human, organizational, and economic prosperity. However, digital technology is not the true story.

Management 10

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As companies thinned out, those leadership positions disappeared — and most haven't come back since. In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

Career 15

Career Welch Information Technology Training 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The resulting insights completely changed the internal dialogues between sales, customer support, maintenance engineering. Information & technology Leadership Organizational culture' These were extensive, but not exhaustive, exercises in simple data science and analytics.

BHAG 8

BHAG Software Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Do you see a company’s sales and customer service folks in the Midwest, while its engineers are clustered in Silicon Valley? Study the leadership team. Competition Information & technology Strategy' Does the company have a 15-person workforce in as many locations? That could signify a virtual setup or a lack of maturity.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Market Penetration Maturity Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management' You can view all of the features of GHDOnline here (PDF).

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses. While these core businesses continued to generate cash flow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Above all, driving the use of these techniques depends on the stance of leadership. Leadership should make it clear that they are offended by wasting time, as it’s also wasting energy, resources and brain space.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Standing on that Viennese street a quarter century spent living and working across Europe later, it occurred to me that those trains were one of the most humanizing technologies I have experienced in my lifetime. What made them such was not the efficiency of railways’ engineering or the success of one pricing strategy.

Technology 8

Technology Drucker Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

At Nationwide the key success factors have been (1) having senior leadership lead by example; (2) setting governance and policies to ensure security of sensitive comments; and (3) using tools that make collaboration easy and fun. Google's engineering culture is a good example of a management system geared for speed. Process Strategy 2.0

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology. Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. That feat was achieved at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. In the Air Force, it’s like changing an aircraft’s engine while it’s flying – no downtime, no interruption of service. Do we fund or not fund?

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., JF: What about quarterly earnings? Doesn't the focus on them distract executives and investors from companies' long-term prospects? BL: Not really. enhance long term growth and at the same time meet quarterly expectations.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology. Throughout the '70s, Xerox leadership empowered a group of scientists and engineers to develop products for the coming information era. That feat was achieved at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

While Gledhill is a “fourth-generation” engineer with a degree in computing and electronics, his formal education was decades ago, well before the rise of smartphones and related apps. It is hard to make decisions about technologies or business models with which you have no first-hand experience.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Of course, engineering design and test should be held accountable, but more sophisticated data-driven analytics makes the cost-driven, compliance-oriented supply chain employee culpable, as well. The emerging cultural challenge for leadership is whether analytics-driven accountability cuts both ways. That's where resentment arises.

Resistance 8

Resistance Organization Supply Chain CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Whether the information source is commercial brokers or existing commercial relationships, diverse information sources fuel the predictive future. (3) Finding this future in the deluge of information available requires doing a better job of boiling the ocean. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company Intangible Assets Information Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. The research firm IDC and trade association CompTIA project the worldwide information technology sector to reach $3.8 We’d be asking U.S. trillion this year. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.).

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The executive responsible for the deliverable (but not the software engineering itself) felt something amiss. It could never have happened unless leadership had the courage and competence to go to the source. The error rates felt too high and the delays too long, given the clarity of project milestones. Is this micromanagement?

Micromanagement 15

Micromanagement Document Telecommunications Software 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. born engineers.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

IT [information technology] was an area where I think the president and his team understood that this was not only good for citizens in general, and good to enable government and healthcare and education, but it also provided an area where Rwanda could build economic activity. Economy Global business Leadership' Kagame: Right.

Porter 9

Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 9