Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Now, so long as the team has someone with the authority to resolve disputes, ensure coordinated action and remove disruptive or incompetent members, teams work well. Team members may dislike each other. They may argue disruptively. They may disagree about important issues. Collaborators face a different challenge.

Collaboration 15

Collaboration Development Team Review Disruption Product Development 15

The Human Factor

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Stay close to your customers, to the point of inviting them to participate in your product/service development team. Eliminate red tape by forming fast, flexible cross-functional teams. Make sure your first response is the correct one by reviewing and analyzing your decision making process before implementing major decisions.

Agile 28

Agile Technical Review Development Team Review Industry 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

What was puzzling about Exotech's results was that the project-management tools put in place were designed to provide information — early warning of problems — that could help the project team respond to them and reduce or even eliminate delays. But they didn't for the software-development team.

Software Review 16

Software Review Software Development Software Developers Development Team Review 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. Likewise, a review of theoretical and quantitative studies showed that teams are often more creative when they have fewer rather than more resources (for example, time, money, and people).

Creativity 15

Creativity Development Team Review Study Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

The innovation roadmap was hauled out and reviewed less in the spotlight of global opportunities than the cold reflection of domestic politics. State satisfaction mattered more than market disruption. Twenty-first century market competition in disruptive business environments quickly becomes regulatory lawfare. No one disagreed.

Development Team Review 13

Development Team Review Software Review Disruption Roadmap 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

As research on disruption and market transitions suggests, you’re better off these days if you can quickly identify and adapt to changes in your environment. So marketers must develop the same mind-set and skills that allow agile tech and product-development teams to manage complex projects with many unknowns and moving parts.

Agile 14

Agile Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Their sense of normal is disrupted. Individuals discussed what they brought to the team and what they needed from their fellow team members.

Change 15

Change Underperforming Technical Team Agile Development Team Review 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

For an example, I spoke with Andy Singleton , CEO of Assembla , a firm that helps software development teams build software faster. Multi-function teams build software enhancements that are rolled up into “releases” which are deployed every six weeks. This represents a truly disruptive management and operating model.

Software 11

Software Industry Management Disruption 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

But even as big business looks to bring UX and design talent in-house, few companies are willing to embed designers on every product development team (and, frankly, there is not enough talent to go around even if they wanted to). Here is a quick look at some of the different strategies that they are deploying: 1.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

In this email to his development team, Jeremiah Dillon, Google’s head of product marketing for Apps at Work, even suggested a specific strategy for each day based on how energy ebbs and flows over the course of a week. .” It’s also helpful to hold any recurring team meetings only on specific days of the week.

Meeting 14

Meeting Management Software Development Software Developers 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Companies have long developed and managed their sales people differently from other employees, placing great emphasis on individual performance. Such a dramatic change to the compensation system — what many consider the heart and soul of the successful sales machine — will seem far too disruptive and risky to a lot of companies.

Collaboration 14

Collaboration System Culture Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. Yodle’s developer teams typically worked on a number of rapid projects that require easy coordination and the visualization of timelines and tasks.

Design 14

Design Collaboration Exercises Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Cofounder Marketing Culture 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Many traditional companies realize the potential for disruptions in their business models from the likes of Alphabet and Amazon.

Report 8

Report Development Team Review Project Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls. At the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI), we examined numerous corporate AI initiatives among large organizations, and identified five key roles that can help AI units to develop the right mission and scope of work to succeed. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Development Team Review 8

Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Data 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Companies across the globe are faced with new competitive threats, changing market dynamics, new technology disruption and evolving customer needs, and the pressure is on for companies to be able to sense and respond to those changes and deliver better products and services to customers, faster.

Agile 8

Agile Technology Artificial Inteligence Competition 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We had to convince hundreds of thousands of health professionals and thousands of hospitals and hospital managers to take on the difficult, complex, costly, disruptive, and frustrating task of changing the way they managed what is arguably the most critical resource used in daily patient care: information.

System 9

System Change Technical Review Policies 9

hackerearth

AUGUST 2, 2017

a new product sold to existing customers with significant cost savings and better performance), or disruptive (e.g. Internal innovation can happen through R&D teams, innovation management teams, business development teams, and employees. Innovation can be incremental (e.g. Need for innovation. Watch this video.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Ideation Innovation 40

Inceodia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Even though we’ve seen it again and again, established companies think they are too big to fail and their business … or even their whole industry … is disrupted by new products or new business models that deliver more value to their customers. Do you want to harness the power of curiosity in your team?

Culture 59

Culture How To Technical Review Innovation 59