Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. While the labor challenge is especially stark in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

They understand that the infusion of fresh ideas can also open their own R&D engineers and technologists to new and different possibilities and cause them to push their thinking further. A recent project we did for FVA, a branch of the German trade association VDMA for companies that provide drive-train systems and components, bears this out.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

And some do get the value of shopping for talent now: Engine maker Cummins Inc., jobs in 2011, many requiring engineering or other technical skills. Similarly, Sony gave sound labs engineer Ken Kutaragi enough latitude to progressively develop the Sony PlayStation gaming platform. now with about 14,800 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the first part of this series , I argued that the reason most mature businesses can't innovate is because they're not designed to innovate. However, despite the fact that Apple brought it to the general public, the company didn't pioneer the technology. Instead, they've been carefully organized to execute. In 1984, Apple Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. With savings from multiple fellowships in school (Thanks, Johns Hopkins), I started my business , and hired and trained people in Nigeria. giants like Altera Corp and Microchip on design services and training.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Businesses can be equally complex: a diversity initiative, for example, might include some compulsory training, but if this triggers sentiments of resistance and skepticism, it can be self-defeating. In 1972, the policy was therefore adjusted so that only man-made fires were fought. As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In the first part of this series , I argued that the reason most mature businesses can't innovate is because they're not designed to innovate. Xerox's failure to conquer the personal computing market — this despite developing revolutionary technology — demonstrates the importance of innovation among all sectors of your company.

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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. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Several themes emerged.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S. based companies. America’s problem?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

And different audiences dictate just what the campaigners promote as the panacea for job growth: higher taxes, lower taxes, deregulation, more regulation, job training — all are constant refrains. A key component: mentoring and cross training between new entrants and greyer talent. What's the reality beyond the rhetoric?

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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. The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

The communities in the Top 25 Future-Ready Economies , a list based on research from Dell and IHS Economics, focus on supporting these entrepreneurs through policies and programs that attract and nurture human capital; foster collaborative, growth-oriented commercial environments; and build enabling foundations of technology.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The nurse has real-time phone access to a geriatric care–trained nurse practitioner who, based on the nurse’s assessment, can order tests (including in-home imaging) and prescriptions and make treatment decisions. They are built through discussions, debates, and constant learning, and can take months to fully mature.

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