Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The rise of powerful and easy-to-use software (e.g., software as a service) and analytic programming languages (e.g., Doing an A/B test comparing whether people like a new product design more than an old one? Well, “average” usually implies testing based on means. On a scale of 1 to 5, 4 is not twice 2.

A/B Testing 14

A/B Testing Software Scaling Sales 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Social technologies — the software and services that make it possible to show off your vacation pictures to all your Facebook friends and follow your favorite team tweet by tweet — are not just giant time sinks that keep your employees from getting their work done. How's this for counter-intuitive?

Media 18

Media Workflows A/B Testing B2B 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Depending on the engineering background of these data scientists, these work products are either deployed directly to the production system, or if they are prototypes they are handed off to software engineers to help implement, optimize and scale them. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find.

Engineering 15

Engineering Workflows User Experience Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

For example, in a previous post I described how Amazon’s ability to continuously release software changes (8000 per day, one every 11 seconds) will crush competitors who are making a batch change every six weeks. This traditional testing takes weeks or months, and still misses errors. Google’s operation stands out for its scale.

Software 9

Software A/B Testing Scaling Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Consider the case of an online advertising and software company serving car dealers. New data sources and predictive analytics software can help inside sales organizations identify target accounts and allocate marketing and sales resources in real time. And successes can be scaled up quickly. Automate account management.

Sales 14

Sales Sales B2B Accounts 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Provides a low-cost, real-time network to test ideas.

A/B Testing 13

A/B Testing Travel Engineering Human Resources 13

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

And then we layered in payment integration and each time we did that the total growth of the company would actually accelerate which is very hard to do at scale. . And then there’s this dynamics on how does it scale over time, CAC tends to go up, LTV tends to go down. ” “How is it gonna scale?”

Marketing 75

Marketing Metrics Retention eCommerce 75

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Our cloud-based software platform captures clinical and financial performance data in near real time from more than 65,000 medical providers across the U.S. There seem to be no efficiencies of scale when it comes to this measurement — an important insight given the ongoing march toward consolidation in the industry.

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Workflows A/B Testing B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The speed and scale on which this is occurring helps us recognize that we are not in a cyclical downturn as corporations attempt to compensate for the disruptive impact of digital technology. Simply stated, it’s harder to make money by working or creating value when the scales tip too far in favor of investors and shareholders.

Assets 8

Assets Balance Sheet Operations A/B Testing 8

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. In this article, I will share the current architecture and some of the lessons we learned scaling it along with some of the things we are looking to improve upon in the near future. How does your system evolve to meet new scaling challenges?

Scaling 21

Scaling Engineering A/B Testing Manager 21