Innovation 360 Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The industry will need to add manufacturing software engineers, robotics specialists, machine learning specialists, automated systems engineers, cybersecurity specialists as well as designers, product engineers, developers, analysts, pricing strategists and procurement specialists, many of which are forecast to be in short supply in years ahead.

Leadership 40

Leadership Artificial Inteligence Ideation Technology 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There are at least 500 start-ups with French founders in the San Francisco Bay area, and there are over 50,000 Germans in Silicon Valley, where salaries for software engineers are much higher than in Europe (or elsewhere). In the past two decades, they created 25% of all American venture-backed companies.

Entrepreneurship 20

Entrepreneurship Leadership Software Engineering Comparison 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

As I reported in an earlier piece for HBR.org : A software CEO I spoke with recently said he avoids job candidates with advanced software engineering degrees because they represent an overinvestment in education that brings with it both higher salary demands and hubris. Here’s the rub.

Software Engineering 14

Software Engineering Software LEAN Comparison 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Moreover, "live life" has been inexorably increasing in popularity over the last century, as my Ngram comparison of usage in English-language books shows. Another interviewee, a software engineer, used technology to track his everyday work habits as a way of boosting job productivity and satisfaction.

Software Engineering 15

Software Engineering Comparison Technology Data 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead, the team of engineers charged with reducing the build cost focused its attention on other engineers within the company who had differing ideas about how to design components with lower material costs. But not to worry.

Underperforming Technical Team 13

Underperforming Technical Team Software Engineering Comparison Study 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

A leading IT company once told me that one of their most successful recruitment ads for software engineers called for people who “could pull the ears off a gundark”—an obscure Star Wars reference they knew would resonate with their target group. Confronting the facts.

Software Engineering 15

Software Engineering Survey Software Review Groups 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.

Strategy 14

Strategy Strategy Software Engineering Strategic Management 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Any advantages you have now will pale in comparison with a great set of algorithms that differentiates the customer experience. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. This is not guesswork.

Software Review 14

Software Review Technical Review How To Software 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Ask just about any anyone to draw a picture of their organization — be it a Catholic priest, a Google software engineer, a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, a guard in Shanghai’s Hongkou Detention Center, or an account executive at Barclays Bank — and you’ll get the familiar rendering of lines-and-boxes. Architecture.

Software Engineering 12

Software Engineering Comparison Culture Management 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Ask just about any anyone to draw a picture of their organization — be it a Catholic priest, a Google software engineer, a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, a guard in Shanghai’s Hongkou Detention Center, or an account executive at Barclays Bank — and you’ll get the familiar rendering of lines-and-boxes. Architecture.

Software Engineering 12

Software Engineering Comparison Culture Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For starters, he will be running a $75 billion+ enterprise with some 100,000 employees, an army of software engineers and many moving parts. An apples-to-apples comparison of the finalists can be vital as well. His challenges will be enormous.

Software Engineering 8

Software Engineering Comparison Leadership Competition 8