The Human Factor

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The Internet and social media combined with continual advances in technology have been turning markets and industries upside down for two decades. Stay close to your customers, to the point of inviting them to participate in your product/service development team. What new technologies or processes could blow them away overnight?

Agile 28

Agile Technical Review Development Team Review Industry 28

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

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

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. 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.

Development Team Review 12

Development Team Review Software Review Disruption Roadmap 12

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. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Disruption Agile 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

. $1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). Lean UX : In many cases, the best way to embed UX thinking in your product development teams is not to focus on design as a specific competency.

Strategy 13

Strategy Strategy Product Development LEAN 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Israel is home to one of the most vibrant tech startup clusters in the world — why? helped to create the nation’s tech industry. ( helped to create the nation’s tech industry. (

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Technical Cofounder Marketing Culture 15

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

MAY 20, 2016

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size.

Design 14

Design Collaboration Exercises Technical Review 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

Agile 8

Agile Technology Artificial Inteligence Competition 8

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 15, 2018

While the enthusiasm is undeniable, the reality is that AI remains an early-stage technology application. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls. Part of the trouble: in many companies, the role of these teams is undefined. Scouting AI technology, applications, and partners. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

Development Team Review 8

Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Data 8

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. The key difference is the degree to which reps have taken advantage of new technology (largely built into their CRM system) to share and learn from one another.

Collaboration 14

Collaboration System Culture Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

Report 8

Report Development Team Review Project Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. We were starting on the first step, but the rest would follow in due time. We also spoke of inevitability.

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System Change Technical Review Policies 8