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Fat chance. If the NYTimes had hired more engineers, those engineers would have told management they needed to innovate to survive, just like everyone else was telling them. And management still wouldn't have listened.
Don't you think every single employee at NYTimes Co knows that?
Fat chance. If the NYTimes had hired more engineers, those engineers would have told management they needed to innovate to survive, just like everyone else was telling them. And management still wouldn't have listened.
Don't you think every single employee at NYTimes Co knows that?
To be fair, the NYT did hire, among many other technical talents, both Jeremy Ashkenas (Backbone/CoffeeScript) and Mike Bostock (D3), who may not be engineers by training, but are at the forefront of web and interaction technology. But the problem isn't just number and/or quality of engineers. It's about top-down leadership and mindsets that encourage and cultivate engineer-led innovation. Sure, some of Google's earl…
What a surprise: a media dinosaur dismissing new technologies before it was too late. Also, how about appropriately titling the link instead of paraphrasing the opening line?
I hope you're not suggesting that "The newsonomics of “Little Data,” data scientists, and conversion specialists" would be a better submission title...