1 / 46

Leading an Effective Engineering Organization

Leading an Effective Engineering Organization. Leslie Martinich Competitive Focus. Effective Engineer Teams. What are the characteristics you’ve observed in an effective engineering team?. EMC BOK. Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning

alyn
Download Presentation

Leading an Effective Engineering Organization

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Leading an Effective Engineering Organization Leslie Martinich Competitive Focus Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  2. Effective Engineer Teams • What are the characteristics you’ve observed in an effective engineering team? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  3. EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  4. Market and trend analysis, strategy, risk management EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  5. Methodology, Operations, Process Improvement EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  6. Financial management, Sales and Marketing, Pricing strategies, Portfolio analysis EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  7. Team processes, Performance management, Conflict resolution, Negotiation EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  8. Professional ethics, Regulatory and Contract Management EMC BOK • Market Research, Technology Updates, and Environmental Scanning • Planning and Adjusting Business Strategies • Developing Products, Services, and Processes • Engineering Operations and Change • Financial Resources and Procurement • Marketing and Sales • Leading Individuals and Engineering Project Teams • Professional Responsibility and Legal Issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  9. Topics • Leading • Managing innovation • Aligning your team with your company’s direction • Gaining support for your team’s projects • Topics we will not cover • Operations management • Project management • Financial management • Professional responsibility and legal issues Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  10. Leading Engineering Teams • Different strengths, preferences, skills, propensities • Different communication styles and preferences • Provide people with opportunity to do meaningful work, to make a difference Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  11. Problem Solving and Creativity • Differences in ways of thinking, solving problems, creating • Adaptors and Innovators • Working within a structure vs. working outside of a structure continuum Adaptors Innovators Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  12. Adaptor - Innovator • Score each question quickly, using your first reactions • Total your score at the bottom of the page Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  13. Activity • Your company has two projects. Decide which one your group wants to take. • Your company is one of the top 3 widget firms, and has 15 years of success in widget engineering to build on. Typical widget development efforts take 6 months. Your firm expects to continue its leadership for the next several generations of widgets. It has a budget in place to support the next 10 years of exploratory efforts. • What are your strengths and dispositions? • What are your priorities and what do you hope to accomplish? • Team A is responsible for delivering the next generation of widgets. • Team B is responsible for exploring new technologies and figuring out what will be the product to replace widgets in the future. Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  14. Utilizing Talents • Apply talents to appropriate tasks • You need all types to complete the puzzle • Give people opportunities to do meaningful work and make a difference (and that varies with the person) Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  15. Communication Preferences • Face-to-face • Big picture • Talks through alternatives and decisions • Quick decisions; can correct mistakes • Email • Lots of data • Thinks through alternatives and decisions • Time to analyze the data Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  16. Listening Management Colleagues Staff Understand your audience What is important to them? What are their goals? Communication Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  17. Leading the Team • Understand your own and your team members’ strengths, dispositions, problem-solving styles, communication preferences • Next Topics: • Managing innovation • Aligning your team with your company’s direction • Gaining support for your team’s projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  18. Industry Assessment Partners Competitors Suppliers Your offering Customers Distributors Alternatives • Industry Structure Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  19. Industry Assessment:Competitive Forces Potential Entrants Industry Competitors Rivalry Among Existing Firms Suppliers Buyers Substitutes Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  20. Innovation Why? Strategy What? Products, technology, solutions Who? Markets, demographics How? Processes, manufacturing Where? Distribution, channels When? Value chain, timing Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  21. Innovation Phases • Early Phases • Period of chaos and uncertainty • Need flexibility and adaptability • Later Phases • Focus on efficiency and process • Focus on cost Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  22. Phases Overlap As one technology matures, innovations create another technology Mature Innovation Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  23. Example: News Distribution Is the firm in the “newspaper” business? Or the “information” business? Or something else? • News Industry • Media distribution • Changes in distribution • Print • Online • Pod Casting • ??? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  24. Example: Photography • Digital photography • Photo processing -> Printing • Consider players: • Polaroid • Kodak • HP • Ink providers • Sony • Canon Mature Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  25. Industry Assessment: Innovations • What forces are changing in your industry? Platform changes Technology changes Supply chain changes Market changes ????? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  26. Where Are We? • Choose your industry • How do you define your industry? • What is the industry structure? • What competitive forces are operating? • What innovations are shaping the future? • Where are you on the S-Curve? • What is the basis for competition—features or price or relationship or something else? • Given the answers to the above questions, what are your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  27. Industry Assessment Partners Competitors Suppliers Your offering Customers Distributors Alternatives Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  28. Leading the Team • Understand your own and your team members’ strengths, dispositions, problem-solving styles • Managing innovation • Next Topics: • Aligning your team with your company’s direction • Gaining support for your team’s projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  29. Leading Your Team: On the Right Path Big picture, Innovations What ARE we doing? What SHOULD we be doing? Strengths, Fit Analyze Industry Direction Devise Action Plan to Get Team on the Right Path Analyze Team’s Position Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  30. Strategy Alignment • What should your team be doing? • Where should your team’s focus be? Where we are now Where we need to be Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  31. Paired Comparison Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  32. Paired Comparison: What’s Important A = 10 (50%) B = 3 (15%) C = 6 (30%) D = 1 (5%) E = 0 Weighing the relative importance Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  33. Pareto Analysis: What are We Doing? • Where are you spending your efforts? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  34. Leading Your Team: On the Right Path Analyze Industry Direction Devise Action Plan to Get Team on the Right Path Analyze Team’s Position Where are we spending our time What SHOULD we be doing? How can we get there? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  35. Team Alignment • Choose your team’s industry • What is your team’s (or firm’s) current focus? • Where is the industry going? • What SHOULD you team (or firm) be doing? • What can you eliminate or reduce or redirect in order to allow your team to do what it should be doing? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  36. Leading the Team • Understand your own and your team members’ strengths, dispositions, problem-solving styles • Managing innovation • Aligning your team with your company’s direction • Next Topics: • Gaining support for your team’s projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  37. Internal selling Leading Up Managing Up Understand communication preferences of Colleagues Executive staff Your staff Gaining Support for Your Team’s Projects • Acquire needed resources • Improves chances for success of your projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  38. Selling Your Ideas • Selling up • Figure out who has the decision-making power • Initially ask for input and suggestions • Restructure your proposal to include input • Selling down • Solicit input and listen! • Selling laterally • How does your project benefit other stakeholders? • Remember personal needs and interests Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  39. Negotiating for What You Need • What are the goals and objectives of the organization? • How does the issue at hand fit into the goals and objectives of the organization? • What are the goals and objectives of the individuals involved in this conflict? • What are the additional interests of each of the individuals? • If we can’t negotiate a resolution to this conflict, what is our best alternative? • What are some possible solutions or resolutions? • How can I elicit additional information? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  40. Negotiation Planning Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  41. Make a Proposal • Your team needs to focus on X • What is your plan to gain support for X? • Who are the members of your audience? • What are their communication preferences? • How are you going to communicate with them? Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  42. Leading an Effective Engineering Organization • Understand your own and your team members’ strengths, dispositions, problem-solving styles • Managing innovation • Aligning your team with your company’s direction • Gaining support for your team’s projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  43. Working Together • Understand the people on your team • Provide meaningful work • Understand your industry’s directions and trends • Align your team’s efforts with the organization’s goals • Gain support for your team’s projects Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  44. Questions Leslie Martinich leslie@competitivefocus.com www.competitivefocus.com Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  45. Extra Slides • Extra slides Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

  46. Activity • Your team is going for a hike in the Strait of Belle Isle Barrens. Leslie Martinich www.competitivefocus.com

More Related