Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. It was not an easy task, but I had a powerful weapon in mind from the start: reorganization. Avoid Ambiguity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

“Some people are cynical—there’s this sense of ‘You fired my friends’ and ‘This reorganization is never going to work.’” “You want to be one of the active advocates who take initiative to make the reorganization work,” she says. .”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Particularly in the Internet’s native careers – design and software engineering — communities of practice have emerged that offer signals of types and varieties that we couldn’t even imagine five years ago. And society will reorganize around it as we wake up to its power. It is truly unprecedented in all of human history.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Engineers can “walk” through digital factories before workflows are finalized. But they failed to address the bigger opportunities that such tools offered: fundamentally rethinking and reorganizing the flow of product-development activities. Indeed, companies did save money with such simple substitutions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Or those who find themselves on the short end in the latest reorganization or merger selection? Unfortunately, her success made her direct supervisor and the head of corporate strategy jealous – and they engineered a reorganization that moved the innovation team under the strategy office and left Sheila as an individual contributor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

That’s why we’ve established connections with the data competition site Kaggle , the cloud-based engineering platform GrabCAD , and the invention factory Quirky. How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand. At GE, we don’t want to solve every problem alone. Partnerships are the path to speed and scale. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Fiorina attacked many different aspects of the company, including reorganization, cost cutting, and vision setting. HP culture at that time was very engineer-dominated, and relatively male-dominated. As HP’s first female CEO, Fiorina just didn’t connect well with the engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

With the studied intensity of a good engineer, he decided to demonstrate that this defense company was a safe place to talk about anything. One topic that never came up was criticism of a major reorganization Phil imposed two years previously. So he primed the pump. I’m sure there are frustrations with this one.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

My team at J.Crew was organized by function such as affiliate marketing, paid search, email marketing, and search engine optimization. Website page title changes should not be based solely on editorial considerations but also search engine optimization competitiveness. Each role is clearly defined and limited in scope.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Increasingly, knowledge workers won''t simply be creating or generating information but assembling, reorganizing and prioritizing information from others. Reverse Engineering. Multimedia Editing. In other words, they''ll be editing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In those instances, your challenge as a manager is to reorganize roles or rethink strategies to best achieve the goals at hand. She had recently taken over the leadership of a combined team of engineers and creative employees for a new project. Keep your door open. Case study #1: When in doubt, over-communicate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Consider the way we naturally gesture as we casually chat with colleagues, deliver presentations, or brainstorm with engineers. Are there certain days or times when I am better at tacking tough mental tasks, which would help me reorganize my schedule and work routines in a less ad hoc way? Gesture-based productivity apps.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

That’s why we’ve established connections with the data competition site Kaggle , the cloud-based engineering platform GrabCAD , and the invention factory Quirky. How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand. At GE, we don’t want to solve every problem alone. Partnerships are the path to speed and scale. An HBR Insight Center.

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Marketing Reorganization User Experience Scaling 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, which helps it attract world-class engineers who share its mission. What’s more, the reorganization efforts that are supposed to break down silos invariably recreate them in different places. What’s really important is to balance cohesion and diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Since taking the job four years ago, he has sought ways of giving greater responsibility to his 80-person division of software engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

It's tough," says Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No A **e Rule. But being in good company doesn't make it any easier. The dynamics completely change. People start to watch you more than ever before."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Malone is a brilliant financial engineer, who creates separate capital structures — each with a unique stock — for his different lines of business. But there’s a better comparison than Buffet: it’s John Malone, the “mastermind” who built the cable TV powerhouse Liberty Media.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Second, as innovation moves from human insight to data-driven machine learning, firms need to reorganize their internal innovation culture, emphasizing machine learning opportunities and putting in place data exploitation processes. This is hard because it often runs counter to an engineering culture that has long championed human ingenuity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Rather than placing an emphasis on disruptive forces, boards are increasingly seeking directors who bring operational capabilities and who could guide the re-engineering of the entire organization. Nearly three decades into the internet revolution, executives across all industries are now digitally literate, if not fluent.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Many high-performance organizations remain passionate about Vilfredo Pareto, the incisive Italian engineer and economist. Managers and their data science teams must reorganize themselves around extreme Pareto potentials and possibilities, not just more and better data. come from 20% of causes (products, employees, etc).

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BetterUp

MARCH 7, 2018

Josh is no stranger to technology; he studied engineering at Stanford, has been fascinated by how technology relates to the labor market, and is one of the most prominent and well-versed figures in the world of talent development. According to LinkedIn, ‘machine learning engineer’ is 9.8 Redefining “career”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It also left us concerned that the reorganization was forcing the salesforce to rebuild their networks from scratch, which could be costly and sub-optimal for our customers. Investment in business analyst, data science, and data engineering talent was essential. We believe bringing the right people onboard is worth it.

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AIHR

AUGUST 3, 2023

This most commonly happens during reorganization or layoffs. During mergers, acquisitions, or other reorganizations, employees will feel uncertain about future employment and may jump ship during the process. High voluntary turnover can create more attrition when recruiting can’t keep up resignations.

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Ed Batista

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In The Origin of Data Information Knowledge Wisdom (DIKW) Hierarchy , Google researcher Nikhil Sharma notes that economist Milan Zeleny articulated a similar schema in a 1987 article, Management support systems: Towards integrated knowledge management , and that engineer and author Mike Cooley did the same in his 1987 book Architect or Bee?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Alphabet has singled out health and life sciences, and the impact on this sector could be more profound than what Google did with search-engine algorithms in advertising in the 1990s. The creation of Alphabet should worry companies in many industries.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 17, 2023

When growth and achievement are interrupted by reorganizations or management doesn't care about them, employee attitudes will shift to a negative mindset; they will then start looking for flaws and reasons to be unhappy at your company. How do you help your team grow professionally. 4) "How do you like to receive feedback?

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Chief Executive

OCTOBER 1, 2022

economy and fund the effort by reorganizing the FBI to defend U.S. Skilled professionals, including engineers and scientists, should similarly be vetted and welcomed to this country to continue our proud tradition of attracting innovators to our shores. The administration should extend Federal protection over the full U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

When the industry was purporting that mobile was best served as a content engine and mobile shopping would take years to take off, we dove-in head first. We’re lucky to have an amazing CTO with a deep knowledge of e-commerce and strong desire to partner with the business, and a strong team behind him.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

In that period at General Electric, for example, engineers hired right out of school went through a career development process which included managerial training. Four months later, a third of them were laid off in a reorganization. Over time, the company began to bulge with managers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2012

Clearly, however, these tactics aren't foolproof — and in some cases you may need to try to engineer a move to a new position within your organization. For example, your boss may be on the hot seat with her boss or on edge about an impending reorganization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Consider Amazon's recommendation engines. Recommendation engines and reviews have both proven remarkably (cost)effective sales, marketing and promotional media for Amazon. Digital technologies push firms to recognize, rethink and reorganize how they should make their customers smarter and more confident. That's compelling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. In other words, would an activist see a need for yield optimization, a merger, a capital structure reorganization, or a spin-off?

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AlignOrg

JANUARY 28, 2025

Now I find myself thinking about that team exercise every time a reorganization is announced. Collaboration and the Science Behind Letting Go Harvard Medical School professor and biomedical engineer Jeffrey Karp offers powerful insights about innovation in his book “ LIT: Life Ignition Tools.”

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