Engineers and Business Development
What shoes do you wear? Business. Engineer. Something magical? It takes all three to develop a new embedded device… The dichotomy between the engineering community that builds products and management that funds the production of products is where the magic lives. Ethical considerations seem to me to be the common ground between these two groups within the corporation. Build a good ethic within your organization so executives can fund the correct projects designed by professionals with the requirements clients genuinely desire to use safely.
One resource for learning how:
Rethinking Business Ethics
Rosenthal, Sandra B.; Buchholz, Rogene A.
– Ron Fredericks
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September 26th, 2007 at 3:15 am
[…] In a previous post I introduced the idea that ethics might be the common framework between this dichotomy. In this post, I suggest that engineers might apply this ethical approach by taking some time out to learn the language of business development from a financial management perspective – a financial definition for return on investment (ROI) – an ethical approach to decision making during the typical project. […]