Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. Amenities and kitchens are strategically positioned to “engineer serendipity” and conversations across organizations. Who uses them?

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Company Case Interview Engineering Metrics 128

Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

Company 124

Company Balance Sheet Metrics Engineering 124

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

System 130

System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

They work towards clear goals and they are focused on and accountable for achieving certain performance metrics. They’re already confident it will improve the client experience and business metrics, but they need to know by how much. Instead, they were born out of curiosity and extracurricular tinkering by data scientists.

Data 123

Data Engineering Metrics Resources 123

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

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.” Performance means more than clearing a metric — it also means reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain models that perform well in production.

Data 133

Data Engineering Fashion System 133

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

We longlisted skills associated with roles such as: business analyst, data analyst, data scientist, machine learning engineer, or growth hacker. And finally, we coupled this with information on how difficult the skills are to learn — using time to competence as a metric and assessing the depth and breadth of each skill.

Data 131

Data Analysis Construction Metrics 131

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. That, in turn, has allowed the elevator companies to revamp their business models. They are selling performance, not hardware. This kind of innovation often is difficult for traditional companies to understand.

Productivity 132

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

Company 118

Company Engineering Operations Construction 118

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The second dimension represents the maturity levels based on the Capability Maturity Model developed by the Software Engineering Institute (one of the most popular and widely-accepted models of organizational maturity assessment). An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance. Let’s take a look at these levels. .

Management 130

Management Resources Metrics Efficiency 130

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Engineering (Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused). Engineering majors are known as beasts at Excel, which is fundamentally the most important hard skill you will need for consulting (on day one, the best analysts at Bain were absolutely the engineers – until the rest of us could catch up).

Consulting 100

Consulting Engineering Finance Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The right composition and metrics. There should also be metrics assessing how well a meeting is executing its charter. This also allowed each team to keep their respective organizations up to speed on progress, shifts in priorities, and their counterparts’ work. Too often leaders let hierarchy define who comes to a meeting.

Meeting 133

Meeting How To Government Finance 133

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

Remember, it does not matter whether your team is in R&D, Engineering, or IT. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers.

Agile 98

Agile How To Metrics Productivity 98

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Renowned for its robust capabilities, Primavera is tailored for industries like construction, engineering, manufacturing, and government, where precision, scalability, and risk management are critical.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

And in Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr, a legendary venture capitalist, applies an engineer's discipline to the thorny question of how best to use metrics.

Strategy 66

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 66

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

Data 132

Data Talent Survey Recruiting 132

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The CTFs were hosted on our open-sourced platform, and the challenges were designed by a cross-functional team of security engineers each with a specialized skill set (mobile application security, Windows security, and so on) to ensure a well-rounded CTF experience. Hacktober is also a great learning opportunity for the security team.

Education 133

Education Culture Engineering Course 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics. The practical application of artificial intelligence and machine learning will become a standard way of life across engineering, testing, and broader portfolio management in the near future. So what is sparking the need to deliver even faster now and where do AI and ML fit in?

Agile 104

Agile Development Management Software 104

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. Second, high-potential individuals in the go-to-market group spent 34% more time with product and engineering groups than the team average. For comparison, the employee sample identified as low performers had an average network size of 20.

Leadership 132

Leadership Talent Deloitte Software 132

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

A key reason that businesses are increasingly willing to spend on digital marketing is that many of the key engagement metrics can be easily measured: e.g., open rates, clickthrough rates, and conversion rates. In 2020, global spend increased by 12.7% to reach US$378 billion.

Marketing 88

Marketing Consulting Media Engineering 88

Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

In a breakdown of loneliness and social support rates by profession, legal practice was the loneliest kind of work, followed by engineering and science. Our survey found that this approach translates into demonstrable improvements on key human resources metrics. Where you work matters.

Research 134

Research Report Study Survey 134

Management Consulted

MARCH 22, 2016

engineers, med students, JDs, post-docs, interns, practicing MDs or residents, these magical BCG and McKinsey consulting seminars are crash courses, extended job interviews, and sell weekends all rolled into one. 3 – Too long and not metrics-driven. Aimed at Ph.D.s, Can you guess a really easy way to show you can do that?

Resumes 100

Resumes Consulting McKinsey Metrics 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To answer those questions, Duncan and his team conducted an experiment, launching Express Pool in six large markets and then comparing metrics in the launch cities with those in others. Top-line metrics like revenue and sales don’t tell the whole story. 4) Make sure you understand why your product is succeeding or failing.

Productivity 70

Productivity Metrics Sales Engineering 70

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Methodologies 134

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Is real-time web traffic an important metric for the team to keep an eye on? Share these case studies with the team to encourage them to think about how a process change or new tool might be able to help with their job. Another way to make data top of mind is to display it all over the office. Install a TV showing a few data dashboards.

Data 127

Data Sales Case Interview Meeting 127

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. In an agile methodology, engineers create multiple versions and iterations of prototypes in a concentrated timeframe to put potential solutions in the hands of users as quickly as possible.

Methodologies 70

Methodologies Agile Exercises Metrics 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics. “It required engineering resources being diverted and getting investors comfortable with that, and we had to make sure marketing could figure out how we were going to reposition ourselves.” Her efforts paid off.

How To 188

How To Case Study Case Studies Conference 188

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures.

Training 123

Training Training Data Metrics 123

Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 11, 2018

It’s a largely solved engineering problem. Car dealers might try to measure the easy metrics of output (how many sold) but they’ve consistently failed at managing the improvised human interactions that car salespeople engage in. Most of us aren’t trying to solve an engineering problem. No one likes them.

Engineering 55

Engineering Metrics Leadership System 55

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Renowned for its robust capabilities, Primavera is tailored for industries like construction, engineering, manufacturing, and government, where precision, scalability, and risk management are critical.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

By hiring a consulting firm, the business will be able to more quickly develop a reliable roadmap for selecting the most attractive cities based on certain metrics: e.g. market size, market growth rate, cost of raw materials, supply of talent, and strength of the existing competition. Which cities should it prioritize? Conclusion.

Consulting 135

Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

In my role as a product manager, this involved devising new tools, KPI metrics, and solutions, fostering a culture of innovation and creative problem-solving. 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 Engineering Resources Productivity 88

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

Productivity 71

Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 71

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Enter Reward Function Engineering. Reward Function Engineering is the job of determining the rewards to various actions, given the predictions made by the AI. Sometimes Reward Function Engineering involves programming the rewards in advance of the predictions so that actions can be automated. Parents teach their children values.

Engineering 71

Engineering Exercises Training Training 71

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4 million for Virgin Atlantic, resulting in reduced emissions of more than 21,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) over the course of the study. Clearly, positive environmental impact can be quite profitable.

Efficiency 70

Efficiency Metrics Study Groups 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. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

Strategy 131

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Recruiting 131

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

These micro-level tests must be a constant and ongoing process of evaluation, tweaking, and re-evaluation, to continuously improve the gears, bearings, and levers that make up the marketing engine. Optimizing these micro elements of marketing typically yields improvements in sales revenue and market share. Who should do the modeling work?

Marketing 88

Marketing Advertising Sales Media 88

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Top management swiftly established a new team in Guangdong, away from the Shenzhen headquarters, and tasked a small group of engineers to reimagine a different social media platform, giving them carte blanche to cannibalize the existing QQ product. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Recruiting Recruitment 70