Chief Outsiders

APRIL 22, 2025

Each chapter explores how to turn brand, positioning, operations, and customer experience into engines for measurable growth. This is Part 1 of the Revenue-Ready Marketing Playbook, a 4-part series for mid-market CEOs who want marketing to move the needle.

Revenue 130

Revenue Assets Marketing Engineering 130

Michael McKinney

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

Operations 224

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 11, 2021

What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Search engines need to support fast scaling for both Read and Write operations. For example, adding a vendor in a marketplace generates a spike of indexing operations (Write), and a marketing campaign generates a spike of queries (Read). Here's Part 1.

Scaling 123

Scaling Engineering Operations Marketing 123

15Five

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As engineers transition from individual contributor to technical lead or manager roles, their soft skills become as important as their hard skills. Engineers are motivated by interesting and challenging problems, which the expanding applications of high technology generate. Ana Pazos is an e lectronics engineer with a Ph.D.

Engineering 16

Engineering Software Performance Management Manager 16

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This means a system that is not merely available but is also engineered with extensive redundant measures to continue to work as its users expect. reliability situations, where continuity of service is essential, with redundant elements continuously in-service, such as with airplane engines. Business operational cost.

Engineering 66

Engineering Operations User Experience Scaling 66

Sweet Process

MARCH 16, 2022

Data engineer vs data scientist: who should you hire? Improving data analytics can potentially increase a company’s operating margins by over 60%. The post 5 Reasons Why Startups Should Hire a Data Engineer Instead of a Data Scientist appeared first on SweetProcess.

Engineering 59

Engineering Travel Operations 59

Help Scout Leadership

APRIL 27, 2021

“The support queue is an enormous, gelatinous, sticky, messy blob, growing continually to fill all of the available space.” – Matt Hunter, Technical Support Engineer Illustrated by Carolina Escobedo Garcia , Customer Operations Associate at Clerky. How will you know if you’ve chosen a good approach?

Workflows 299

Workflows Manager Metrics Engineering 299

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 20, 2022

She explains that by thinking about the impact a business has on the people and cultures in our community, we can support and enhance those around us – while assisting our company in meeting financial and operational goals. I was really good with sciences and math, and so they pushed me into engineering and now neither of them.

Marketing 221

Marketing Engineering Operations Media 221

AIHR

AUGUST 15, 2024

Since the late 1990s, HR has repositioned as a strategic partner with a new operating model focused on balancing strategic business partnering, centers of excellence, and operational efficiency in HR delivery. For example, HRBPs are embedded within business units, participating in regular strategic planning and operational meetings.

Implementation 52

Implementation Deliverables Operations Administration 52

Chief Executive

JANUARY 20, 2023

But because the company’s manufacturing operations are located on U.S. jurisdiction, we offer the same level of operational security, of stability, all the frameworks and protections that you’d expect from the U.S., There is really no better place to reshore pharma, medical device and bioscience operations than here.”

Operations 98

Operations Engineering Digital Transformation Administration 98

Chief Executive

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most founders did not grow up thinking about company operations, nor do they have the skills or the interest in becoming an effective operator. In order to achieve product-market fit, early-stage companies usually overinvest in their product and engineering functions and underinvest in other parts of the company.

Engineering 97

Engineering Operations Scaling Media 97

UVA Darden

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Mike and Yael speak with UVA Darden alum Travis Nixon (MBA '16), Machine Learning Engineer with Meta, about how we might use AI and data to redefine the user experience on social media to achieve healthier outcomes. Algorithms, meant to create a more personalized experience, are isolating users from diverse opinions and news sources.

Media 98

Media User Experience Engineering Diversity 98

Michael McKinney

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The club was conceived as a way to meet that need and to bridge silos that existed between the management and the engineering side of the campus.” A general prerequisite of most MIT entrepreneurial contests or accelerators, for instance, is that participants form mixed teams of scientists and engineers with management students.”.

Engineering 117

Engineering Revenue Diversity Education 117

Jackie Nagel

AUGUST 23, 2022

The road has potholes, the engine’s knocking, and Bobbie is missing – all clear indicators that this trip is in trouble. Then, it’s time to engage the clutch, shift gears, and formalize your operational system. You’re traveling down the road at breakneck speed. Music is blaring. Kids are hanging out the window.

Revenue 130

Revenue Small Business Strategic Planning Operations 130

High Scalability

JANUARY 4, 2019

These software platform solutions helps users easily manage their database operations without having to really understand any of the abstractions. Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world.

Engineering 82

Engineering Administration Software Operations 82

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. High Level Design.

Engineering 133

Engineering Media Software Scaling 133

UVA Darden

JANUARY 25, 2024

Having been trained as an engineer, I had no option but to solve this problem.” Husk’s founders designed the minigrids to be simple and easy to operate, because they knew that the locals were mostly farmers with minimal education. “We We don't need an engineer or highly qualified person to operate our plants,” said Sinha. “We

Energy 116

Energy Engineering Business Administration Operations 116

Peter Winick

JANUARY 18, 2024

You know, I start that way because I feel like I’m a product of the city, went to go study engineering, realized I didn’t want to be an engineer, end up writing love songs for a living, much to my parent’s chagrin, when that was cool. Peter Winick As do most engineers. Marcus Collins So we do.

Marketing 293

Marketing Government Engineering Advertising 293

AIHR

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Boolean search uses logical operators (like AND, OR, and NOT) to combine keywords and phrases to refine your search results. When using Boolean operators, you can include multiple keywords, expand the search, and exclude specific terms. Note: Google doesn’t recognize NOT as a search operator.

Recruitment 78

Recruitment Sales Management Media Sales 78

High Scalability

AUGUST 27, 2018

This is article was written by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, Site Reliability Engineer at Auth0, and originally was originally published in Auth0. We implemented new features like custom domains , scaled bcrypt operations , vastly improved user search , and much more. Authentication is critical for the vast majority of apps.

SaaS 97

SaaS Scaling Engineering Implementation 97

Chief Executive

JUNE 6, 2023

American factories and warehouses are undergoing an automation boom that was well on its way before the pandemic, was supercharged by the virus, spurred further by supply-chain debacles and generational labor shortages, and now is entering a new phase in which companies’ need to reshore industrial operations has become another driving force.

Engineering 97

Engineering Operations Revenue Digital Transformation 97

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This was the catalyst for Kim’s book The Breakthrough Manifesto which acts as a field guide for leaders and organizations to act, join the movement, and achieve breakthroughs that can fundamentally shift the way an organization thinks and operates. And when they brought me in delete it, it was an operational role.

Metrics 293

Metrics Real Estate Engineering ROI 293

Forbes Leadership

JULY 15, 2022

From the beginning of the pandemic the CIO was the hero who got us safe and operational from our homes in a matter of days, to innovating new technologies for how to improve remote work, adding value to the volatile and ever-changing customer experience needs, and even engineering new technology-.

Engineering 76

Engineering Operations 76

Asana

AUGUST 1, 2022

Since joining #teamasana 4 months ago, it’s become clear to me that successful areas (groups of engineering teams with a shared goal) tended to have many things in common, including the presence of an Area Tech Lead (ATL). That sounds like the type of project I would have loved as an engineer. Want to get to know some of our ATL’s?

Engineering 67

Engineering Staffing Reorganization Operations 67

AIHR

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

They define business problems that analytics can help solve , guide technical teams in the creation of analytics-driven solutions to these problems, and embed solutions into business operations. Ideally, translators will have spent time working in business operations before starting translator training.

Project Management 112

Project Management User Experience Recruitment Workflows 112

Chief Executive

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The executive vice president of worldwide operations for Flex, which designs and manufactures a huge variety of products for hundreds of clients, oversees hundreds of plants in 30 countries with more than 160,000 employees. Flex also makes great use of “cobots,” which are robots that work with people, also known as collaborative robots.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation Operations Energy Assets 98

AlignOrg

MAY 31, 2023

HR Operations – Also known as shared service centers, these employees handle common administrative duties like payroll processing and benefits enrollment for all units across the organization. It doesn’t need a Ferrari engine to navigate the school drop-off lane. However, leaders often under-resource these operations teams.

Administration 83

Administration Operations Engineering Recruitment 83

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 19, 2021

As an added bonus, well-structured documents also help search engines index specific sections of your content, making it even easier for your users to find them in a search. Create titles that include the operative phrases. Even for average-length articles, users will appreciate being able to jump to the section they want.

Workflows 317

Workflows Education Account Management Engineering 317

Forbes Leadership

MAY 4, 2023

There are similarities between the stock and ad markets, but they are fundamentally different in purpose and operation. Muddled thinking leads to bad regulation and worse: threats to our leading economic engine. Besides, long before digital, media companies sat on both sides of buying and selling.

Engineering 74

Engineering Media Operations Marketing 74

Forbes Leadership

JUNE 16, 2022

I gathered data from 2,571 individual contributors from Marketing, Operations, HR, Finance, Product Development, Legal, Engineering, IT, and Research and Development.

Engineering 71

Engineering Operations Marketing 71

AIHR

JUNE 26, 2023

For example, a software engineer should have programming skills in languages like Python or Java, along with problem-solving abilities to develop innovative solutions. For example, a software engineer should have knowledge of programming languages, data structures, algorithms, and software development methodologies.

Software 98

Software Engineering Project Management Onboarding 98

Chief Executive

AUGUST 23, 2022

As this industry continues to evolve from vehicles based on internal-combustion engines to those that are electrified and autonomous, Michigan is still one of the global epicenters, and certainly the one in this country,” says the head of external affairs and government relations of LG Energy Solution Inc. , Denise Gray agrees. “As

Transportation 98

Transportation Energy Engineering Government 98

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Future proofing the end-to-end supply chain in this environment means shifting from finite scenario planning to a “read and react” strategy focused on key markers to ensure your business and operations can pivot quickly to a rapidly changing economic and supply chain environment.

Accounts Payable 98

Accounts Payable ROI Operations Accounts 98

AIHR

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Improving overall operational efficiency of HR. Process: The process refers to the operational process of the HRIS, as described above. In the Human Resources Information System selection context, QFD is a “system engineering approach” which helps transform the requirements of the customer (e.g.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources Implementation Workflows Recruitment 105

Chief Executive

JANUARY 25, 2023

space program, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and contractors including Lockheed Martin, rather suddenly required the employment and training of thousands of engineers, computer scientists and technicians to work at Cape Canaveral and what became Florida’s “Space Coast” on the Atlantic Ocean.

Engineering 98

Engineering Scaling Operations Education 98

UVA Darden

JANUARY 12, 2023

Operations & Technology. The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests. Cowan studied industrial engineering and economics at Stanford University. 11 January 2023.

A/B Testing 111

A/B Testing Digital Transformation Engineering Onboarding 111

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If you don’t take these time periods into account, you could be overestimating or underestimating CAC and as a result making some terrible operating decisions. Most teams are using 10+ tools to operate their marketing and sales machine. Here is an example of how you could overestimate.In Mistake #3: Not Including Money Spent On Tools.

SaaS 111

SaaS Sales Sales B2C 111