Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Enter my co-author, MIT-trained strategist and engineer Juan Carlos Méndez-García, who consults with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Here's some more on Méndez-García's Facebook and S-curve math.). Forget the plateau of profits: seek and scale a learning curve. Images copyright 2012 Juan C.

Learning Curve 10

Learning Curve Market Penetration Disruptive Innovation Kaplan 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s our job to get the plane down safely, whether riddled by bullets or with two dead engines snuffed out by birds over the Hudson River. So we aviators seek cultures of learning. Cultures of learning are marked by questions such as “Can I get your opinion on this?” and “What do you think about that?” But then we sobered up.

Six Sigma 57

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The manager had an engineering background; when it came to getting a task done, “all he saw was the task,” says Boyatzis, “not the people he worked with to get it done.”. His learning curve involved tuning in to how other people felt.

Chemicals 20

Chemicals Learning Curve Open-book Bottom-up 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. I've learned it is important to grieve.

Ries 22

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 22

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. Could both technologies exist side by side? Or would only one survive?

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

As I have grappled with my own this-just-may-break-me failures, I am increasingly convinced that dreaming must be a process, an engine of experimentation. As we practice innovating we are propelled up a personal learning curve — and we begin to accomplish our dreams. I've learned it is important to grieve.

Ries 19

Ries Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. With electric power steering you draw power from the engine only when you need it, not constantly as with a belt-driven hydraulic pump.

Software 8

Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software.

Executive Coaching 79

Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Two groups had the steepest learning curve in particular. An Indonesian engineer found commonality with Rakuten’s requirement that employees spend five minutes per week cleaning their desks by comparing it to his practice of washing his feet and hands when entering a mosque.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software.

Executive Coaching 68

Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The reason: There''s a big learning curve with Big Data, one that companies such as Netflix and Amazon had to embrace in the 1990s to deal with hundreds of millions of customer clicks. It''s a learning curve that most other large companies have not yet faced.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

The marketing team was getting lost in attribution, pulling the same search engine marketing levers, talking to the same audiences, and creating the same campaigns with diminishing returns. Furthermore, the traditional audience for experiential gifts was no longer connecting emotionally with the RedBalloon brand. The situation was untenable.

Retail 8

Retail Audience Budgeting Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

This learning curve is often the culprit behind implementation processes that take significantly longer than managers expect. Much has been made of the scarcity of AI engineers, along with the fact that the precious few are quickly snapped up at huge salaries by the usual suspects — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook.

Technology 10

Technology Talent Management Process Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Focus on learning. “Your life and your career is one big learning curve,” Johnson says. ” You miss that “dopamine rush that comes with learning and achieving.” “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.”

Career 14

Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

After all, that’s when workers are usually getting used to a new setting, new colleagues, and new equipment, and when the learning curve is steepest. Still, for the decade it took to build this engineering marvel there was electrical power, rail transportation, and ample ventilation flowing through the full length of the tunnel.

Project 8

Project Transportation Learning Curve Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

” Paul Azinger, ESPN sports analyst, claimed that Woods had become mechanical and “over-engineered himself out of being great.” ” The commentators suggested that Woods didn’t need learning; he needed un-learning. Giving feedback.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve ROI Film Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Doing so presents its own risks.

How To 15

How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2019

However, this isn’t going to get you very far with the search engines. Designing your first website takes time and patience but it is the perfect opportunity to learn more about your brand, pick up some SEO skills and refine your marketing skills. The first year of any business should always be treated as a learning curve.

Brand 50

Brand Learning Curve Blog Content 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Whether you’re familiarizing yourself with new processes or new people, there will be a learning curve. .” Again, it comes down to “having awareness that things are not likely to be the same,” Watkins says. Network around the company. She also made sure to share her new outlook and knowledge.

Company 13

Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

But once you achieve initial product-market fit and are down the Sales Learning Curve (PDF), suddenly you are faced with a new challenge: how do I scale up the sales efforts? After 3-6 months, they work their way down the learning curve, close their first deal and are off to the races.

Marketing 8

Marketing Productivity Products Learning Curve 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2018

Eager to learn, I placed The Circumstantial Enemy on-hold for a year, choosing to devour every book I could find on how to master the craft. Like most novelists, the learning curve is never-ending. Continuous learning is the thing I enjoy most about writing fiction.

Forrester 122

Forrester Film Learning Curve Books 122

You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 4, 2010

But, no matter where we are on the technology learning curve, the one thing we know for sure is that if we are going to learn it well, we have to consult those who have the skill. As my husband is fond of saying, “There is nothing wrong with my memory, it’s my Search Engine that is a little faulty!&#

Learning-by-Doing 41

Learning-by-Doing Media Blog Technology 41

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Drive-in movies. Benchmarking.

Planning 63

Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Drive-in movies. Benchmarking.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Be able to recognise learning curves and achievements and to know when to move on and when to dig in and make the most of an opportunity. If you find a way to build adaptable skills that can be flexed to different industries or department functions (marketing to engineering for example), then you have the recipe for success.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). There always must exist a learning curve.

Planning 50

Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

telemetry, communications and connectivity protocols, electrical hardware engineering). Engineering. It is rare for a single company to have all the required engineering capabilities under one roof. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity. and design and user experience.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

As I described in an article in the May issue of HBR , a single 3D printer can produce engine pumps one day and crankshafts the next. GE’s first additive manufacturing facility , a plant in Alabama, is set to make nozzles for jet engines. With 3D printing, however, industrial conglomerates are about to get a new lease on life.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Microsoft’s engineers discovered that people were doing less of the time-consuming writing and creating that had once been the norm. In Windows 8, I think Microsoft’s engineers made a fundamental assumption that led them astray: that users want one interface for all machines, one machine for every part of their lives.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Competitive Intelligence Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Learning is not a spectator sport. A recent study by researchers from Bucknell University found active learners perform better than their passive peers in mechanical and electrical engineering.

Training 8

Training Learning Curve Incubator Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Potential customers for our ideas have a predilection for thinking more about what they are already thinking, of scaling the learning curve they are already on. When it comes to embracing a new idea, most will demur unless you can pack a parachute that will allow them to jump safely from their S-curve to yours.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

How many of us would trade performance for understandability in our own lives by, say, giving up our current automobile with its mystifying internal combustion engine for Fred Flintstone’s car? While they should get better over time, there would be great social value in understanding more about how to accelerate this learning curve.

Policies 8

Policies Tools Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It will take time and effort: Additive manufacturing require a steep learning curve for engineers used to working on conventional assembly lines, and each part must be tested extensively to make sure it holds up under wartime conditions.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 9