Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

Cross-functional teams have emerged as a powerful model for fostering innovation and efficiency in product development, allowing companies to break down silos, improve communication, and leverage diverse expertise to create better products, faster. It requires collaboration, agility, and a deep understanding of the customer.

Engineering 88

Engineering Productivity Development Efficiency 88

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Second, they can repurpose a portion of the efficiencies gained from automation to support more complex customer service needs. Third, they should use an expansive mindset when engineering customer experiences by offering multiple channels of communication.

Company 213

Company Engineering Efficiency Operations 213

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. PPM tools help allocate resources efficiently by analyzing availability, workload, and skill sets, ensuring that the right resources are allocated to the right projects. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. PPM tools help allocate resources efficiently by analyzing availability, workload, and skill sets, ensuring that the right resources are allocated to the right projects. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nearly 56% of survey respondents believe they cannot demonstrate improvements in on-time project delivery, organizational efficiency, or profitability. Hyundai Heavy Industries Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is a top South Korean shipbuilding company that holds roughly a 15% share of the world’s shipbuilding market.

Management 242

Management Cash Flow Industry Real Estate 242

Chad Barr

MARCH 19, 2025

AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT and others, aren’t just fancy tech toys—they’re strategic weapons that can revolutionize your email marketing and broader marketing initiatives when wielded with precision. Think of these AI tools as your marketing department’s secret laboratory.

Marketing 52

Marketing Tools Sales Engineering 52

Consulting Success

JUNE 12, 2017

Instead, I wanted to learn about business, law, and marketing and then combine that knowledge with opportunities in Asia. The rest is history, but I got what I wanted and ended up taking classes in international law, marketing, and economics to support what I was learning, and the Asian Business Studies Program was born. Company Size.

Consulting 209

Consulting Engineering Study Marketing 209

Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

How can manufacturers ensure production efficiency and competitiveness? One of the effective solutions is digital transformation — the implementation of innovative technologies into every manufacturing aspect helps production companies enhance their capabilities, shorten products’ time to market, and satisfy customers’ demands.

Examples 130

Examples Efficiency Data Automotive 130

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

Is marketing solely a game of chance, or might there be a way to bring scientific methods to the table? At the micro level, the various pieces of the marketing puzzle can be, and should be, optimized on an on-going basis: The overall positioning and strategy should be evaluated. Let’s draw a distinction between the micro and the macro.

Marketing 88

Marketing Advertising Sales Media 88

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. One module of Emerge, focusing on the prevention of ICU-acquired weakness, demonstrates the elegance of a systems engineering approach.

Engineering 70

Engineering System Data Research 70

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Although machine-reengineering is new, companies are already seeing striking results with it, particularly in boosts to speed and efficiency. The technology can pick out kinds of people — mountain climbers, for instance — to help advertisers more efficiently match ads to the videos. Market monitoring.

Efficiency 70

Efficiency Company Data Engineering 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Don’t optimize for efficiency. What to do. What not to do. Your goal is success.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Image generated by AI using a free version of Canva Of course you’ve heard of ChatGPT but are you using it to work smarter and more efficiently yet? Outbound Marketing: Craft engaging content for newsletters, emails, brochures, and LinkedIn posts. If not, you should be!

Productivity 195

Productivity Consulting Tools Efficiency 195

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. However, digital markets do not follow the contours of conventional industry structures.

Company 121

Company Engineering Operations Construction 121

Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

A Chief Project Officer can have a significant impact on organizational success: they help organizations achieve their business objectives, drive innovation, and remain competitive in the market. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

Resources 178

Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 178

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 176

Company Survey Finance Engineering 176

Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the complexity of construction projects is increasing, digitalization provides construction companies with a number of benefits: high efficiency of processes, precise project planning and visualization, real-time cooperation, new market opportunities, reduced risks, more effective decision-making, optimized construction costs, etc. [5;

Construction 157

Construction Trends Industry Energy 157

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. In theory, the whole system therefore becomes more efficient, minimizing wasted materials and activities. This has implications for capacity utilization and capital efficiency. Insight Center.

Data 124

Data Engineering System Efficiency 124

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The success of IT uplift is determined by the access to up-to-date tools, reduced maintenance costs, increased employee efficiency and satisfaction as well as better business performance. . Digital marketing .

Tools 148

Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 148

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. Marketing needed to change what they wanted, the code changed, our entire team changed. Are you still working on this project? We had to restart everything.

Development 144

Development Productivity How To Efficiency 144

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. The worker must also possess robotics and controls engineering skills, according to our analysis of Tesla’s recent recruiting efforts.

Engineering 130

Engineering Training Training Analysis 130

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 30, 2016

A little dab of inventory data would enhance both customer expectations and process efficiencies. But the more rigorously the use cases were modeled, the more complicated enhancing expectations and efficiencies became. Process innovation, improvement, and efficiency aren’t going away or becoming less important.

Efficiency 139

Efficiency Productivity Software Data 139

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Building models with web search data as one of the inputs reduces mean absolute forecast error, a standard measure of prediction accuracy, for monthly national sales predictions on the order of 40% from baseline for auto makes with relatively small market shares, compared to traditional time-series models. Improved pricing.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

Trends 88

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

These bets on the next growth engine often depend on luck more than insight. Many companies invest in or buy them, unsure what they’ll yield other than the halo effect they may overpay for, made worse by the fact that most don’t align with the company strategy or meet a market insight. New experiences. New offerings.

Company 157

Company Agile Productivity Marketing 157

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. That’s no longer true.

Sales 132

Sales B2C Energy Efficiency 132

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain. Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

Insurance 133

Insurance Insurance Industry Balance Sheet 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

But what if the task had been simply to make a chip that was 30% more efficient? Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. In fact, a study analyzing 17.9

Research 196

Research Enterprise Video Energy 196

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

While India is the fastest growing major economy in the world today, some foreign companies are still struggling to enter the market there. To enter the Indian market with more profitability, multinational companies would benefit by creative use of the country’s supply chain and the explosive growth of its online channel.

Marketing 70

Marketing Intellectual Property Sales Retail 70

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975. They make us more efficient and productive.

Real Estate 139

Real Estate Engineering Transportation Industry 139

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Related Video.

Metrics 136

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 136

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Cash Flow 131

Cash Flow Transportation Energy Balance Sheet 131

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. You might be an applied machine learning/AI engineer if your response to “I bet you couldn’t build a model that passes testing at 99.99999% accuracy” is “Watch me.”

Data 133

Data Engineering Fashion System 133

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

Management 130

Management Resources Metrics Efficiency 130

Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, in times of war and crisis, companies dealing with aerospace and defense projects have to timely react to arising challenges and suggest the best solutions possible to meet the consumers’ requirements and stay competitive in the market. Read more: 4 Tips on How to Manage Globally Distributed Teams with Maximum Efficiency.

Resources 148

Resources Management Data Efficiency 148

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Sales organizations want flexibility to meet changing customer demands while engineering and operations need stability to drive scale and efficiency. Offices in different countries or regions want solutions specific to their unique markets, while corporate headquarters requires all units to align to a single, clear strategy.

Company 126

Company Groups Engineering Meeting 126

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. 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. But in an outcome-centric organization, marketers target individual customers.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 70