Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2024

To create value, mergers need top-line gains: More sales to more customers, expansion into new territories or market adjacencies, new products and services to sell to existing customers.

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How To Engineering Sales Operations 253

Consulting Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

A lot of times, what we see for new product companies are you’ve got a couple of founders where one knows the product well because that started the idea, and then one knows how to market and sell the product. Once you have those two things together, the next piece is the ecommerce operations piece.

Engineering 113

Engineering Consulting Operations Sales 113

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ATMs include engineered cell therapies that reprogram cells to fight disease, gene therapies that involve replacing or editing dysfunctional genes, and nucleic acid therapies that promote or shut down production of a protein.

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Pharmaceuticals Strategy& Strategy Strategy 251

Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.

Productivity 158

Productivity Sales Strategy Strategy& 158

Tom Spencer

MAY 3, 2025

For every Amazon, theres a Myspace, Nokia, or Friendster companies that pioneered their respective industries but failed to maintain their leadership once competitors emerged with better products, smarter strategies, or more agile operations. Similarly, Google wasnt the first search engine. Consider Facebook versus Myspace.

Healthcare 88

Healthcare Telecommunications Marketing Productivity 88

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What are some examples?

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Data Engineering Software Metrics 132

Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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Productivity Study Policies Data 135

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Some Training Required.

Engineering 130

Engineering Training Training Analysis 130

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Operations in a Connected World.

Data 124

Data Engineering System Efficiency 124

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? This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 70

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

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

When Bain & Company examined the talent management practices of more than 300 large companies worldwide, we discovered that the most productive and best-performing organizations cluster their star talent in a few business-critical roles. The company had very few software engineers.

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Company Talent Engineering Insurance 153

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

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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. 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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Every high performer needs both.

Metrics 136

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 136

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. What not to do. What to do.

Metrics 132

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Operations in a Connected World. Predicting demand.

Data 132

Data Advertising Operations Case Study 132

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. In addition to the IT and topic experts that major IT projects required in the past, today’s efforts in complex fields such as resource-productive manufacturing or predictive maintenance need deep expertise in production processes, data science, and change management.

Operations 70

Operations Data Engineering Software 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

In fact, although we saw examples of companies using AI in computer-to-computer transactions such as in recommendation engines that suggest what a customer should buy next or when conducting online securities trading and media buying, we saw that IT was one of the largest adopters of AI. What about the automation of the production line?

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 176

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

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Company B2B Engineering System 131

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

Company 120

Company Engineering Operations Construction 120

PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Facility relocation projects can be long and complex efforts.

Productivity 83

Productivity Engineering Report Groups 83

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ford mastered mass production of cars with internal combustion engines a century ago. Can the industrial titan reinvent itself in a climate-conscious world?

Engineering 123

Engineering Industry Productivity Transportation 123

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How it effects product design and customer experience. How organizations are changing.

Change Management 136

Change Management Management Software Productivity 136

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

Engineering 128

Engineering Government Automotive Research 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. The chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of a consumer product company is struggling to manage end-user consent data. Here’s an example.

Data 103

Data Company Operations Enterprise 103

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Therefore, before investing in certain technology, every company should have a clear idea of what their customers’ journey is, their behaviors, and expectations to make sure that transformed products or services will meet customers’ needs to the full. . Technologies: Optimization of Operations . Digitizing operations.

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Tools Operations Efficiency Talent 148

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

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. Most of Google’s and Facebook’s consumer products are ostensibly “free.”

Data 133

Data Company Advertising Engineering 133

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.

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Consulting Operations Financial Real Estate 135

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 Training Training Operations 135

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

Media 139

Media Fashion Agile Talent 139

Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2017

She moved people to tears (and cheers) when she played a video showing how their lean operations allowed one of her employees to thrive at work and contribute to his community after work. But we can’t forget that the “why” of lean isn’t just to deliver products faster or cheaper. Simon Sinek preaches that we should “start with why.”

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Conference Video Tools Engineering 124

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. The call center logs customer complaints. Insight Center.

Productivity 70

Productivity Wireless Data Survey 70