Engineering MBA

Engineering MBA Be The Boss of Your Own Work @kevin_j_m
Kevin Murphy

@kevin_j_m RailsConf University

@kevin_j_m Executive MBA

@kevin_j_m Executive MBA Curriculum 📚Finance 📚Accounting 📚Marketing 📚Strategy 📚Operations

@kevin_j_m Executive MBA

@kevin_j_m Accelerated MBA

@kevin_j_m * Estim a ted time, f a ke degree
30 minutes, 1 degree

@kevin_j_m Accelerated Engineering MBA Curriculum 📚Situational Leadership 📚Competitive Advantage 📚Process
Management

@kevin_j_m Kevin Murphy

@kevin_j_m Course Structure 👂Lecture 📝Final Exam 🧱Capstone Project

@kevin_j_m ⏲ 3⃣0⃣

@kevin_j_m Situational Leadership

@kevin_j_m Sprint Planning Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management

@kevin_j_m Leader Role Team Role Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process
Management 📝 👂 🧱 Directing Telling, Guiding Detailed supervision Task execution

Management 📝 👂 🧱 Coaching Selling, Expl a ining Get buy-in on “why” Provide input on process

Management 📝 👂 🧱 Supporting P a rticip a ting, Coll a bor a ting Facilitate discussion & encouragement Decision-making

Management 📝 👂 🧱 Delegating Empowering, Monitoring Overall vision Autonomy

@kevin_j_m Final Exam 📝 Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management

@kevin_j_m What is the best leadership style? Situational Leadership Competitive
Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱
What is the best leadership style? 👑Directing: detailed supervision 👑Coaching: explain why 👑Supporting: facilitate decision-making 👑Delegating: focus on vision

@kevin_j_m It depends Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝
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@kevin_j_m Dr. P a ul Hersey a nd Ken Bl
a nch a rd Choosing the right leadership style for the right people. Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Task Behavior Relationship Behavior Low High High Situational Leadership
Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Directing Task Behavior Relationship Behavior Low High High Situational
Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Coaching Directing Task Behavior Relationship Behavior Low High High
Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Supporting Coaching Directing Task Behavior Relationship Behavior Low High
High Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Supporting Coaching Delegating Directing Task Behavior Relationship Behavior Low
High High Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Capstone Applicability 🧱 Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management

@kevin_j_m Sprint Planning Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝
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@kevin_j_m Directing Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Coaching Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Supporting Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Delegating Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Situational Leadership 🎉

@kevin_j_m Competitive Advantage

@kevin_j_m Should we build this feature ourselves? Situational Leadership Competitive
Advantage Process Management

@kevin_j_m Blog Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Strategies Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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Cost 💲Operational ef fi ciency 💲Proprietary technology 💲Special access to materials Che a pest Option

Differentiation ❄ High quality ❄ Innovative products or services ❄ Faster delivery ❄ Better marketing Uniquely meet customer needs

Focus 🔬Narrow target market segment 🔬Cater to these speci fi c customers 🔬Serve that segment speci fi cally T a ilored Niche

@kevin_j_m Which strategy will bring long-term success? Situational Leadership Competitive

Which strategy will bring long-term success? 💲Cost: cheapest ❄ Differentiation: unique 🔬Focus: niche

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@kevin_j_m Core Competency Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝
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Core Competency 🎯Provides access to various markets 🎯Contributes to perceived customer bene fi t 🎯Dif fi cult for competitors to imitate

@kevin_j_m Should we build this feature ourselves? Situational Leadership Competitive

HIPAA Comment Moderation System

HIPAA Comment Moderation System 👷👷👷👷

Email Delivery

Email Delivery 💸

Comment Pagination

Comment Pagination 🎁

@kevin_j_m Competitive Advantage 🎉

@kevin_j_m Process Management

@kevin_j_m Maximize Ef fi ciency Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process
Management

“A structured, measured set of activities designed to produce a speci fi c output” Process Dr. Thom a s D a venport

“Enables an enterprise to align its business processes to its business strategy” Business Process Management Associ a tion of Business Process M a n a gement

Design 📓

Model 🎢

Execute ⚙

Monitor 🔍

Optimize 🔄

@kevin_j_m What’s the optimal automation of our business process? Situational
Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

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@kevin_j_m Dr. Mich a el H a mmer “Automating a
mess yields an automated mess” Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Business Process Reengineering Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management
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@kevin_j_m The Big Rewrite Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management
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@kevin_j_m The Big Rewrite (of the process) Situational Leadership Competitive

Business Process Reengineering 💥Recreate process from the ground-up 💥Challenge old assumptions 💥Organize around outcomes, not tasks 💥Centralize with technology Don’t Autom a te, Obliter a te

@kevin_j_m Maximize Ef fi ciency Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process
Management 📝 👂 🧱

Dev Workflow Optimization 㱺 cat ~/.gitcon fi g [alias] aa = add --all b = branch can = commit --amend --no-edit co = checkout

Feature Delivery 📄→💻

Business Process Reengineering Implement a tion

Business Process Reengineering 📈Cost savings 📊Restructuring 📉Layoffs Implement a tion

@kevin_j_m Dr. Thomas Davenport “The rock that reengineering has foundered
on is simple: people.” Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Dr. Michael Hammer “I was re fl ecting my
engineering background and was insuf fi ciently appreciative of the human dimension.” Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂 🧱

@kevin_j_m Value Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Impact Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Consequences Situational Leadership Competitive Advantage Process Management 📝 👂
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@kevin_j_m Process Management 🎉

@kevin_j_m Commencement Ceremony   🎓

@kevin_j_m We’re not so different

@kevin_j_m Naming Things Is Hard Resources module Concernable extend ActiveSupport::Concern
end 💼 👩💻

@kevin_j_m Abstraction Class FrameworkReliantConcept < ApplicationRecord include Concernable end 💼
👩💻

@kevin_j_m Thought Leadership 💼 👩💻

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