CorporateIntel

MAY 15, 2014

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. Earlier this year when Elon Musk was profiled on 60 Minutes , he said he was an engineer first. I do think he believes that, which is part of what makes him great, but even more than an engineer, even more than innovator, he is a pioneer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Qmarkets

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The only difference is that WhatsApp was first to capitalise on the innovative capabilities that were being offered by mobile devices, despite possessing categorically inferior technology and resources. These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp. Part 2: A Messenger Fails. Picture Perfect?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

“This was a couple of rogue software engineers who put this in for whatever reason.” Put aside for the moment what this testimony implies about the auto giant’s purported culture of engineering excellence. Occam’s razor cuts deep; those processes were technically compromised and corrupt.

Software Review 15

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Evaluative information like work samples, personal representations, peer and manager reviews, shared content, and scores and badges are creating new signals of aptitude and different types of credentials. Designers now show their work on Dribbble or other design posting and review sites.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

For most software developers, there have historically been many barriers to entry in machine learning, most notably software libraries designed more for academic researchers than for software engineers as well as a lack of sufficient data. And these new technologies affect who works in machine learning as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

New businesses are cropping up to reinvent the recruiting process, blending data from social media sites to create profiles of coders, programmers and software engineers so that companies hoping to hire can search for candidates that have the skills they desire. People Analytics .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the course of research for their recent book , Harvard scholars Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (and three other researchers including myself) studied three highly successful companies – Bridgewater (hedge funds), Decurion (movie theaters, real estate, and senior living), and Next Jump (e-commerce). Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There are plenty of different distinctions that one can draw, of course, and any attempt to group data scientists into different buckets is by necessity an oversimplification. Modeling scientist: Computer science, machine learning, production-grade coding skills, strong communication to work with both technical and non-technical partners.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Those that lead lives use technology as a new lens for self-examination. You can live life using technology to shop, to entertain, to become a virtual friend or follower. But what about also using technology to examine yourself, as a way to intentionally generate personal data for private reflection? Words matter.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Their key finding: “Many college majors that lead to high-paying roles in tech and engineering are male dominated, while majors that lead to lower-paying roles in social sciences and liberal arts tend to be female dominated, placing men in higher-paying career pathways, on average.” ” (Sigh.)

Data 15

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Change Management Software Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

The deterministic behavior means everything is predictable, and more importantly, the system can be designed to be stable, a fundamental goal of control systems engineering (think of the supply-chain bullwhip effect as an example of instability). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

Data 14

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. The tech industry joined the diversity movement to diversify their workforces far later, after being scrutinized for its stark lack of gender and ethnic diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2018

Of course, people are more likely to jump ship when they have a horrible boss. To see how that can play out, let’s consider Chase, who was recently working as a software engineer at Instagram. Smart managers create opportunities for people to use their strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

And many in enterprise IT, from software engineers to IT managers, are moaning the loss of control as elegant, easy-to-use consumer technologies like the iPad and Dropbox reshape expectations in the corporate landscape. Apps have seeped into every crack and crevice of our personal and professional lives.

Big Data 10

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Over the course of our conversation, the executives and I arrived at the hot topic of authenticity. At Nokia, the senior leadership team was for a long time extraordinarily homogenous (mostly men, mostly from Finland, mostly software engineers, mostly educated in Helsinki). Authenticity, Tempered by Custodial Responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While all of those perspectives are relevant, the most revealing aspect of GM’s announcement may well be what the layoffs say about broader technology trends. But beyond that, the cuts went much deeper, to respond to massive, technology-driven changes in the nature of the work at hand. What should be done instead?

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