Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Aggregated total sales is a poor proxy because firms need to distribute inventory geographically, necessitating hyperlocal forecasts. The traditional way of solving this problem is using time-series econometrics with historical sales data. Improved pricing. Predictive maintenance.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Chad Barr

MARCH 19, 2025

Automation & Efficiency Pre-Written Email Templates : Access an unlimited library of templates for every marketing scenario—newsletters that people actually read, promotions that convert, and surveys that gather meaningful data.

Marketing 52

Marketing Tools Sales Engineering 52

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 165

Company Survey Finance Engineering 165

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.

Metrics 134

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 134

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. Microsoft, where we work, is no exception, and B2B sales is one of the areas where we are seeing the most value.

Sales 71

Sales Data Enterprise Analysis 71

Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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Productivity 195

Productivity Consulting Tools Efficiency 195

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

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.

Productivity 98

Productivity Engineering Efficiency Agile 98

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. On June 27 this year the EU fined Google $2.7 In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

Company 120

Company Engineering Operations Construction 120

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2017

Data is not always shared efficiently. Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience.

Data 128

Data Banking Sales Accenture 128

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. Using concepts from lean manufacturing, it modeled the time engineers spent creating and transforming data. Enter the chief data officer, or CDO.

Data 103

Data Company Operations Enterprise 103

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. This requires a strong partnership between sales organizations and customers.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 70

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. I had a client once where the disagreements between design, engineering, and marketing were so strong that the teams couldn’t work together without arguing.

Company 125

Company Groups Engineering Meeting 125

Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

Trends 88

Trends Engineering Travel Airlines 88

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Optimizing these micro elements of marketing typically yields improvements in sales revenue and market share.

Marketing 88

Marketing Advertising Sales Media 88

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

By contrast, companies with strong basic analytics — such as sales data and market trends — make breakthroughs in complex and critical areas after layering in artificial intelligence. With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. Structured data analytics.

Company 134

Company Telecommunications Data Retail 134

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon!

Industry 71

Industry Software Engineering Efficiency 71

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Its young engineers had come up with a technical solution that dramatically reduced downloading delays for users accessing data for their apps. The technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers. One clever network startup discovered this the hard way.

Banking 109

Banking Engineering Enterprise System 109

Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

This initiative positioned us to compete directly with industry giants like FedEx, UPS, and Amazon, offering e-commerce merchants efficient and cost-effective delivery solutions. For instance, acquiring coding skills such as SQL and Python empowered me to grasp technical complexities and collaborate effectively with our engineering team.

Transportation 88

Transportation Resources Engineering Productivity 88

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. In a future dominated by autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing schemes, a typical family might decide to own fewer cars or none at all — meaning lower unit sales, all else equal.

Metrics 70

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

Consulting Success

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He started out as a MBA/chemical engineer with years of experience in the design field and great success in operations, but decided that his talents and passions could truly be put to use when he pursued his dream of helping companies achieve success. He knows how to critically evaluate a program to make it more efficient and streamlined.

Consulting 164

Consulting How To Company Chemicals 164

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

(For all its troubles, Whole Foods still delivers higher returns on assets and sales than Amazon does.). Can Whole Foods’s own supply chain be made more efficient with Amazon’s logistics chops? Can Alexa sell Whole Foods’s inventory? Can the stores be transformed into cashierless, wireless purchasing markets ?

Real Estate 128

Real Estate Wireless Retail Industry 128

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Such behaviors include: managing meetings more efficiently, creating an effective climate of email use, blocking time in calendars for reflective work, negotiating role demands, and avoiding triggers that lead us all to jump in on projects or meetings when we shouldn’t, to name just a few.

Agile 136

Agile How To Efficiency Groups 136

Management Consulted

MAY 17, 2015

Recapped here, a consultant will conduct research and give business advice so that one of the 3 following outcomes will be achieved, depending on the work you have been commissioned for: 1) Increased sales. If the CEOs are the race car drivers, consultants are the backroom engineers. 2) Decreased costs.

Consulting 100

Consulting Case Study Case Studies Engineering 100

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

For me, I can pick up the phone and my sales process from that point onwards is about qualification and some negotiation, but you’ve got to start with lead generation. In fact, my website is my secret 24/7 sales agent. Nigel Green – Sales Consultant Writing is a window to the mind. My site has a lot of videos.

Consulting 167

Consulting Case Study Case Studies Media 167

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 22, 2020

Rather than having 3,100 separate public health departments all create their own physical or virtual outbound call centers for contact tracing, it would be far more efficient to centralize, or at least regionalize, those resources. One executive runs the sales function. A different executive runs the engineering team.

Case Interview 75

Case Interview Sales Engineering Interviews 75

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

What follows describes how German manufacturers in particular are rewriting the rules for industry globally on several fronts: Idea to production : It used to be that every new car model required 20 extra hours of work driven by quality issues or purely unplanned changes that its designers and engineers required.

Industry 70

Industry Automotive Engineering Software 70

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Performance pay isn’t just for your sales team — you can bump your marketing person’s bonus if he doubles his qualified leads, or an engineer’s salary if the product she builds goes live for customers on time.

Strategy 132

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Recruitment 132

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

However, recent developments have opened new doors for consumer product companies to expand their presence and sales in India, at much lower risks. Leverage scale and cost efficiencies and export products to neighboring countries. Set up low-cost manufacturing units in India that increase profitability.

Marketing 70

Marketing Intellectual Property Sales Retail 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

People who were co-located bristled at the idea of having to go through the extra steps of running an efficient distributed meeting when only one or two people were not in the room with them. The first 20 people at DataStax were nearly all engineers, and having them distributed was not controversial.

Talent 103

Talent Meeting Survey Culture 103

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many high-performance organizations remain passionate about Vilfredo Pareto, the incisive Italian engineer and economist. They continue to be inspired by his 80/20 principle, the idea that 80% of effects (sales, revenue, etc.) The churn team’s new Paretos proved helpful to the upsell sales and marketing function.

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Data Sales Analysis 70

1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon.

B2B 29

B2B Sales ROI B2C 29

Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These could range from employee turnover, equipment malfunctions, or even seasonal variations in sales for businesses. “I was approached by a company to investigate why a very important project that should have taken one year actually took five years. Consider an engineer scheduled for four 8-hour tasks in a 40-hour week.

Resources 130

Resources System Tools Management 130

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.

Development 70

Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 70

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Did it have dual pane energy efficient windows? I recall sales prices best because the meat manager was always b g about how much money he was losing on them. In 1969, whole chickens on sale were a loss leader at $0.21 Flash forward to today: Whole chickens are on sale occasion for as low as $0.59 not on sale.

Comparison 63

Comparison Sales Government Engineering 63

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For example, engineers tend to be far more attracted to companies that emphasize innovation, while those in more commercial roles tend to be far more attracted by leadership opportunities. Talent profiles can also include typical interests of these target groups, based on research among existing high performers in these roles.

Talent 70

Talent Recruiting Recruitment Survey 70