Epicflow

APRIL 15, 2022

Aircraft engineering is a complex and constantly developing sector of aerospace and defense, where experts from various areas of technical expertise are involved. What drives efficiency of aircraft engineering projects? Tips on Managing Aircraft Engineering Projects with Maximum Efficiency. Keep control of changing requirements.

Engineering 130

Engineering Efficiency Management How To 130

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

But as companies race to automate their customer service operations in recent years, many are inadvertently creating new barriers for deaf and hard of hearing people. Third, they should use an expansive mindset when engineering customer experiences by offering multiple channels of communication.

Company 213

Company Engineering Efficiency Operations 213

Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Never neglect your network!

Marketing 202

Marketing Consulting How To Culture 202

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Marketing 136

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 136

Women in Consulting

APRIL 10, 2014

There would be a lot less bad marketing in the world if executives were forced to read all the ineffective, sometimes downright awful, content their organizations produce. Marketing is supposed to put human needs first by sounding like it was created for humans by humans. Marketers know this. Vox Humana.

B2B 127

B2B Marketing Examples Sports 127

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. So, I’m not a strict engineer. I’m not a strict operator.

Interviews 156

Interviews Company Marketing Operations 156

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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. Reporting progress on every stage of engineering, procurement, construction, and installation, SHI delivers key lessons to continuously improve project performance.

Management 242

Management Cash Flow Industry Real Estate 242

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. The inherent problem as well as solution with technology is that It keeps changing.

Marketing 97

Marketing Consulting Software Intellectual Property 97

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations.

Data 132

Data Engineering Software Operations 132

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. It will be about the battle for control over consumers’ information.

Company 121

Company Engineering Operations Construction 121

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.

Company 154

Company Talent Engineering Insurance 154

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. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly.

Engineering 70

Engineering System Data Research 70

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

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. I’ve spent the last seven years building the customer success function at HubSpot. What to do.

Metrics 132

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Operations Consultants: Operations consultants are consultants who help clients improve the performance of their operations.

Consulting 135

Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. This might have worked in the past when markets moved incrementally. But in a global business environment that is changing exponentially , the market moves too quickly. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

Company 131

Company B2B Engineering System 131

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations. Digitizing the existing processes makes it possible to reduce their costs and increase their efficiency, so that a company can gain a competitive advantage on the market. Digital marketing . IT modernization .

Tools 148

Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 148

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

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

It seemed as though everybody from the best-known software giants to basic industrial parts providers was marketing a “latest technological breakthrough” — even if it amounted to little more than a new sensor attached to an old piece of equipment. Operations in a Connected World. ” Insight Center.

Operations 70

Operations Data Engineering Software 70

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

The deterministic behavior means everything is predictable, and more importantly, the system can be designed to be stable, a fundamental goal of control systems engineering (think of the supply-chain bullwhip effect as an example of instability). Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Data 124

Data Engineering System Efficiency 124

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. It requires a broad knowledge and a high-level, big-picture understanding of the company and its markets. My group chose to examine the U.S.

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Consulting Success

MAY 15, 2017

In a HBR article many years ago, Christopher Hart shared how BBBK was able to charge ten times more than its competitors and still maintain a disproportionally high market share in the areas where it was operating at the time. Like a consultant, they are serving the B2B market. You want a buyer to understand it right away.

Consulting 206

Consulting B2B Hotels Examples 206

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. Operations in a Connected World.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S.,

Data 133

Data Company Advertising Engineering 133

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Marketing consultants advise companies on marketing strategies and campaigns. Marketing consultants may work as freelancers, or as part of a digital agency (such as Slalom ), marketing agency (such as Ogilvy ), or larger firm that has digital and marketing capabilities (such as McKinsey Digital or BCG X ).

Marketing 78

Marketing Consulting Case Interview Interviews 78

Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

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. Example Rolls Royce creates digital twins of aircraft engines they produce.

Examples 130

Examples Efficiency Data Automotive 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Metrics 136

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 136

Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. In January 2018, Jim was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer/Senior Vice President, Walt Disney World® Resort.

Operations 156

Operations Leadership Consulting Transportation 156

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. A team typically consists of three to seven people who have strong software engineering, product management, testing, and marketing skills. Operations in a Connected World. But when a product is delivered online (e.g.,

Company 124

Company Software Productivity Engineering 124

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

Automotive 128

Automotive Marketing Operations Company 128

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Even unknowns, such as new competitors entering the market, are not totally unknowable. Consumers were outraged.

Company 120

Company Engineering Operations Development 120

Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Like internal combustion engines with oil, AI needs data to run. Yes, data, like oil, is used day-to-day to operate your prediction machine. Instead, the data you have now, which your company accumulated over time, is the type of data used to build the prediction machine — not operate it. Want to know the weather tomorrow?

Data 135

Data Operations Training Training 135

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. The variability and unpredictability of events are too high for rigid directives.

Turnaround 135

Turnaround Agile Operations System 135

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

On average, roughly four times as many winners – defined in this case as those companies that grew absolute revenue at a significant rate and gained market share within their industry over the previous two years – as losers have digital tools embedded into their core commercial capabilities. Zero-base sales capacity.

Sales 130

Sales B2B Tools Software 130

Jerry Fletcher

JUNE 6, 2020

Automagic Marketing. That’s what I used to call the kind of marketing that pushed the limits on georaphy. To me, the promise of automated marketing was a kind of magic. Google is the great search engine that helps you find most everything on the internet. That is automated marketing at it’s simplest. It still is.

Marketing 59

Marketing Consulting Engineering Media 59

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

At a high level, a competency center is a collection of domain experts who are given a goal to improve agility, foster innovation, establish best practices, provide training (and mentoring), and be a communications engine. Competency centers can be established by any type of focus area and require a lead, members, and a sponsor.

Training 131

Training Training Data Agile 131

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

Engineering 128

Engineering Government Automotive Research 128