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

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Enthralled by my surroundings, I would run around the factory floor and talk to the operators at each machine. Items that needed to be worked on were piled onto a cart just to the right of the operator; completed items were piled up just to the left. At an individual level, we often think of it as hours spent on a task or project.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Operations Project Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

Since Sun made hardware and software, only Sun machines running the Sun operating system were allowed. (In In her exhaustive book about this project , Mary Walton describes how buying competitive cars, especially Japanese ones, was seen as practically treasonous at Ford in the 1980's. This attitude is not healthy.

Software 13

Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time. Some are too reliant on technology tool kits and rigid architectures, and not enough on creating the right environment to effectively leverage people with the right expertise to drive D&A projects forward.

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

From our initial needs assessment, we realized that for OB Nest to succeed we needed an information and knowledge-based tracking system that could pull together all health information needed to inform prenatal care into one easily accessible location. Home-monitoring equipment.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Large factoring companies assemble networks of designers and producers; they look for "network orchestrators."

Storytelling 16

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 16

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony.

Crisis Management 79

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 79

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. To track progress, use project management tools like Asana, Basecamp or JIRA. A deadline.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 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. The “Opportunities for New Engineers” program’s most ambitious project, however, is to Build, Certify and Fly (BCnF) a Glasair Super II airplane. Take an aircraft maker like Boeing or a steel giant like Nucor.

Engineering 8

Engineering Competitive Advantage Knowledge Management Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Despite its relatively small size (about 600 employees), EYP also supports in-house research projects proposed by employees, which are selected through a competitive process. These knowledge-generation projects, always aimed at solving a challenge faced by clients, are intended to help differentiate EYP from competitors.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8