Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). If you work at a small business or growing company, you'll eventually face the problem of too many meetings. Once fun and collaborative workplace cultures can easily become a drag of meetings.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

Dianna and I had a unique business, "meet cute." One of my fellow participants was Dianna, a quality engineering consultant who seemed like she already knew me when I met her. I could tell from meeting Dianna how brilliant she is as an engineer. How to Reverse Engineer Your Fear with Roy Bell. And she did!

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs and product managers (PMs) know that they need to find out what people want. The collected information is then taken into product development meetings, focusing all future engineering efforts on addressing the customer pain points in a way that can be monetized.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 1, 2021

By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate more effectively – and reduce stress and fatigue. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back. It’s not an abstraction — quite the opposite.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. By forcing the engineers to understand the problems faced the warranty department, car designs became more reliable and cheaper to fix.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 6, 2020

How to Have Effective and Enjoyable Workplace Meetings This meeting started 10 minutes late. Can we just get this meeting started already? I literally have no clue what we’re meeting about. Boy, do I have a lot of work to get done that I’m not doing as I sit here in my fifth meeting of the week. It’s Tuesday.)

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

The problem with this engineering marvel? The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. No, the problem was with the internal clock. It’s with the simple synching of front line workers with the leadership.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

This can include finding new markets to expand into, developing new products or services, or identifying new partnerships or collaborations. This involves understanding the target market, their needs and wants, and what they are looking for in a product or service. Another key aspect of business development is building relationships.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. In this article, we’ll explore the most significant digitalization challenges that aerospace engineering companies face and outline the ways to address them. Digital twin.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. Operations - improving customer service and identifying production errors and defects. Being guarded promotes distrust.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets.

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Ben de Haldevang

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For me, the bit that’s really interesting and that feeds well into the current discourse is the differentiation between productivity and creativity. Even 20 seconds googling will provide you with images of linear progression, mathematical equations etc when thinking about productivity.

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They meet spec. If they all meet spec, is it any wonder our pricing is collapsing. You have just further commoditized your product. If we both meet spec, what is going to make my report stand out against yours? If an entire industry is busy seeking to meet that average, we can define that work as mediocre.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the 1990s, usability became a key consideration, leading to the development of usability engineering and user-centered design approaches. They collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including UX designers, UI designers, researchers, developers, and product managers, to craft applications that meet user needs and expectations.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

When an aircraft manufacturer decides to create a new model, it doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, and then put all the pieces together. All of this leads to needless patient harm, low productivity, excessive costs, and clinician burnout.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

When it comes to designing and leading meetings that produce results , when you meet matters just as much as how you meet. ” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Please do not disturb.”

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Impact on Online Sales and Results Increased Conversion Rates : Optimized websites with clear call-to-actions, compelling product descriptions, and easy checkout processes contribute to higher conversion rates, translating visitors into customers. Retail Employment : The retail sector is a significant employer, providing jobs for over 15.7

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. But with the Express Pool service, which costs even less than UberPool, passengers are generally asked to walk short distances to meet their rides and to reach their destinations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? For example, when Rolls Royce or GE provide a “power by the hour” engine solution, they are delivering an outcome and potentially more value to the customer. What are you really looking for?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2023

Test ideas quickly, and simply Although designed for small newly established companies, large companies can also innovate by employing the lean start-up method , an entrepreneurial process of quickly testing a new product idea. A common way to test a new product idea is to create a pilot version, which is produced at small-scale.

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Epicflow

JUNE 12, 2023

A phase-gate process (also known as a stage-gate process) is an approach to managing projects and developing products, which breaks the whole procedure down into phases separated by gates. Initially, such an approach was applied to large-scale engineering projects and later became popular with other industries. 1] Ideation.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 13, 2018

It’s simply the smartest way of finding and connecting with your ideal client, establishing your credibility, increasing your number of discovery meetings and close rates as well as giving you the platform to increasing your fees. We don't sell a tangible product or service. If they experience a quick win, they'll want some more.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Senior executives need to balance the long- and short-term demands of their businesses, and meetings need to mirror this balance. How Top Salespeople Land Hard-to-Get Meetings. You and Your Team Series. Stu Heinecke.

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun. To succeed at this task you must get inside the heads of your ideal clients and ask what they want the most, what problems they struggle with frequently, what isn’t working for them, and what could make their jobs easier and more productive.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. 35 (in the anniversary edition): “The team just defined meets the desiderata in several ways. If so, the team releases a product with an unknown number of problems.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders. The changes can be incredibly powerful like a search engine that does complex Boolean searches based on answers to questions in English. Yes, they were trying to make their product better than all the others out there.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. After a series of meetings with Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Apple, and Amazon, we decided to develop our own IoT software and hired the people who could help us do it. What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. I know because I’ve been there.

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