Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From the early days of mechanical automatons to more recent conversational bots, scientists and engineers have dreamed of a future where AI systems can work and act intelligently and independently. The agentic AI prize could be great, with the promise of greater productivity, innovation and insights for the human workforce.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2025

In todays fast-paced, customer-centric marketplace, developing successful products requires more than just technical skills and innovation it demands a deep understanding of users’ needs and a creative approach to problem-solving. What is Design Thinking? These stages are not linear.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 1, 2022

In this episode, Bianca Robinson, the CEO of Cayden Cay Consulting, talks about her career shift from being a project manager for an engineering firm to diving into consulting service. She also discusses how and why.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A matrix organizational structure means that a companys employees report to multiple managers, e.g., a project (or product) manager and a functional manager. engineering, marketing, finance, etc.) At the same time, a functional manager strives for their departments productive work and requires the same team member for this purpose.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 11, 2025

In todays fast-paced business environment, successful product development demands more than just great ideas and cutting-edge technology. This article explores the importance of cross-functional teams and how they drive successful product development. Benefits of Cross-Functional Product Dev Teams 1.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. To build a deeper understanding of these experiences and how women deal with them, we interviewed and surveyed more than 330 engineers in the U.S. (43% 43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 11, 2024

While much has been said about the potential benefits of remote work for women, recent research examines how working from home affects the professional development of female software engineers at a Fortune 500 company, revealing that its impact varies by career stage. Male engineers also benefit from proximity, but less so.

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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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The allure of building indoors in a controlled environment instead of in the mud, muck, and maelstrom of a conventional site has made prefabrication a strong candidate for the future of construction for architects, engineers, and construction futurists. But time and again, the revolutionary potential of the approach has failed to materialize.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2024

They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For us, ChatGPT isn't just another tech gimmick; it's a virtual assistant that can elevate our creativity, enhance productivity, and revolutionize our communications. Crafting Commands for Quality Output The secret sauce to ChatGPT's effectiveness lies in prompt engineering.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2023

Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. For some products, it is easy; for others, one needs to find more creative ways to engineer the data feedback loops.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2021

If you design for resilience, you’ll be better able to navigate disruptions.

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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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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.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Product design is more creative than engineering, more practical than art, and more hands-on than graphic design Product design is a field that involves the creation and development of new products or product improvements. What Do Product Designers Do?

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Around the time of this interview, GM had installed Unimate robots on the line, increasing production from 60 cars per hour to 101 cars per hour, and making it the fastest line in the world. I’m not an industrial engineer, but that seems insanely fast. Everyone is trying to make good products at lower cost. It’s difficult!

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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David A Fields

JULY 6, 2016

Let’s talk about how to fire up the work engine when you’re ensconced in enuii. Hey…that YouTube video on growing Norwegian potatoes looks sorta interesting! In fact, anything other than work looks interesting. Sound familiar? Have you ever dawdled through days? We could deal with the deep, systemic issues that are dampening your enthusiasm.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 12, 2022

One of my fellow participants was Dianna, a quality engineering consultant who seemed like she already knew me when I met her. I could tell from meeting Dianna how brilliant she is as an engineer. She coaches product development engineers about awareness and use of quality and reliability methods during the design development process.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New research shows how foreign-owned factories tend to be more productive, higher paying, and more technologically advanced. Here’s how U.S. companies benefit.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

In the competitive, fast-paced, and ever-evolving landscape of technology and business, the role of a product manager is pivotal. A great product manager is not just a project coordinator, they are visionaries, strategists, and leaders. As such, effective communication is the backbone of successful product management.

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. The post Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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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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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?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 13, 2018

We don't sell a tangible product or service. People have different learning styles.and search engine preferences. YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google so videos can play a key role in attracting your future clients. Content marketing is essential for consultants because we are in the knowledge business.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

The problem with this engineering marvel? The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. No, the problem was with the internal clock. It’s with the simple synching of front line workers with the leadership.

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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.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers.

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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.

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