Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

What's interesting is not so much the apps themselves but how the store has quickly evolved into an "app-ommendation engine," a virtual vehicle where shoppers can see the firm's most popular apps by geography, practice, and job title. App management" is clearly becoming a form of knowledge management for the enterprise.

Management 13

Management Engineering Open-book Performance Review 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For over half a century, the aerospace and defense industry has been at the forefront of defining advanced analytic techniques, because we needed them to address highly complex engineering challenges. Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management' We will need to be faster.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Analysis Information Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge.

Management 10

Management Fashion Knowledge Management Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

However, managers and focus groups liked a separate scented additive compound that came out of this research stream. Working in coordination with the knowledge management group, the corporation was able to re-purpose the scent for use in another business unit. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. Health Information & technology Internet Knowledge management' In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Coupled with mechanical models, this has resulted in an engineering management mindset, in which people are inevitably seen as instruments for another’s purpose, rather than as ends in themselves. Business education Knowledge management' For more information, see the conference homepage.

Management 8

Management Drucker Resistance Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

We believe that fragmentation and variability in care may best be addressed by creating tools to share knowledge than can be used by providers as they care for patients in their own communities. This knowledge is updated in real time and made widely available.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

In the first week on the job, managers sit down with their new hires and ask them about their favorite projects they’ve done, the moments when they’ve felt most energized at work, the times when they’ve found themselves totally immersed in a state of flow, and the passions they have outside their jobs.

Career 15

Career Ryan Learning-by-Doing Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Four times each year, we launch a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS, where they will stay for six months to one year, performing engineering tasks, research, maintenance, and upgrades to prepare for future commercial vehicles. The medical capability in a given space flight program (e.g., Apollo, Skylab, ISS, etc.)

Intangible Assets 11

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Never allow the organization to over-engineer the innovation process. Ideally an outside facilitator leads the discussion and analysis, and the findings are captured permanently into a knowledge management system. There should be no elite privilege when it comes to innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Given the China site’s historical emphasis on high quality software development, incorporating regular input from customers was seen as contrary to good engineering practice so developers didn’t adopt the approach. Instead, such rights reside with the team or manager.

Innovation 11

Innovation Altman System Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

We also try to maintain a true meritocracy with competitive pay and a specific career path that defines clear expectations at every level (our titles replicated the ones external firms use: analyst, consultant, project manager, practice lead, and so on). A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

But even if people who have failed were not reluctant to share these stories, and even though such information is valuable, no market exists to bring together buyers and sellers of knowledge of failure. Created by Engineers without Borders (Canada), the site lets users submit stories of failures and browse those of others.

Marketing 14

Marketing Venture Capitalist Incubator Travel 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage. Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay.

Consultative 8

Consultative Competitive Advantage Long-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Most IT professionals have engineering, computer science, and math backgrounds. Accordingly, it's crucial to understand how people create and use information. This means that project teams need members well versed in the cognitive and behavioral sciences.

Project 8

Project Call Center Information Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

In our experience, companies that build a D&A capability meeting their business needs have teams of data and software engineers who are skilled in the use of big data and data scientists who are wholly focused on a D&A initiative.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I wanted to build a way to promote a wider understanding of machine learning — not just for engineers, but for everyone at Nokia. Music to my ears. But that was just the first step. The Five Steps to AI Competence.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing System Course Outsourcing 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

MARCH 17, 2015

Transparency: To help make your team members’ private knowledge public to the group, invest in knowledge management tools that are accessible and searchable by everyone in the company. As David Fullerton, VP of Engineering at StackExchange, writes , “There’s no halfsies in a distributed team.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

As an approach, lean innovation lends itself especially well to corporate cultures, often engineering ones and others strongly focused on process-improvement programs such as Six Sigma. And when the learnings are captured in a knowledge management system, revenue jumps again.

Innovation 8

Innovation Six Sigma Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts. Remember T-groups, total quality management, skunk works, high performance teams, “intrapreneurship,” re-engineering, the learning organization, communities of practice, knowledge management, and customer centricity?

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

But the day before the launch, NASA personnel became concerned about the weather, and the Solid Rocket Motor manager at Marshall Spaceflight Center asked Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of those motors, to review their safety in cold weather. Challenger lifted off the next morning and was destroyed 73 seconds later.

Engineering 14

Engineering Open-book Review Operations 14