Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Adaptable Processes Identify and modify key business processes, policies, and procedures to align with the new ways of operating.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools. An industrial equipment distribution company uses artificial intelligence powered by Lattice Engines to identify the right products to cross-sell to customers. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

If possible, some benchmark data -- either internally (against different stores, regions, plants, etc.) This tends to be how engineers think of pricing. Segment the revenues however helpful. Then be sure to examine both the fixed and variable costs. Often looking at revenue first provides clues as to what may be driving the costs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Internal and external network size in comparison with benchmarks in their local areas.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

Pricing driven by industry dynamics The market in which a company operates will determine to a large measure its pricing strategy. Businesses that use cost-plus pricing might include manufacturing or engineering firms that have significant and sometimes highly variable production costs.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Some years ago I asked a group of 700 engineers from two large Silicon Valley companies to assess their performance relative to their peers. As a result, some of these Harvard employees earned in excess of $30 million in yearly pay, due to performance that was truly exceptional against industry benchmarks. The results were startling.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth. " This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. Policy responses matter too.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The event brings together experienced project management practitioners from various industries: finance, technology, pharma, telecommunications, engineering, and more. 15th IRNOP Conference June, 11-14, Stockholm, Sweden IRNOP annual conference brings together scholars who have a background in business, engineering, economics, etc.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. For instance, if a particular engineering team is stretched thin, all projects dependent on that team will experience delays. Consider an engineer scheduled for four 8-hour tasks in a 40-hour week.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations. With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. Automating basic processes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” Highlight a wider array of role models.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. To this end, if we reverse engineer today’s sustainability agenda, it is clear that a powerful element of its genetic code has been the Triple Bottom Line (variously rendered as TBL or 3PL).

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MishTalk

MAY 4, 2015

Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago On April 1, I noted the Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact). That is 285 basis points higher than Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple-A scale. That bad fiscal health was just related to Chicago schools. On April 21, a $295.7

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