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Engineering Project Management: The Essential Guide

Epicflow

Project management in engineering involves a combination of engineering background and project management skills to be able to lead engineering projects toward successful completion. What is Engineering Project Management? Project management and engineering management go hand in hand.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. Recommendations are seen as a technique to sell more online, instead of a renewable resource for relentlessly improving customer insight and their own.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

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.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

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. Add a touch of process, carefully.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. Building rocket engines. . Accelerating production of commercial aircrafts. . Creating rocket bodies.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And our topic today is really focusing on those product companies. 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.

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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

In the pre-digital era, product and service development was usually conducted by experts working inside firms or through expert vendors hired by those firms. In the specialist mode, companies will create new products and services by pushing the envelope of product performance, with improvements allowed by digital design.