N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. based labor. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves.

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Of course, by the time it came to actually tallying up the money and applying it to my education, the total collected was paltry compared to what was required (the cost of a formal education being fodder for my grist mill in a later post, perhaps). " For years my extra change went into that doggy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Perhaps your story will serve to help others to never forget 9/11 and to always remember that there is a very expensive cost associated with our freedom. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., It's also important to cultivate a balanced team from the start.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. The actionable cost savings from process improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state. Employers are also most willing to pay relocation costs for employees with these skills. Last fall, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. Our Freedom.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Google your name periodically. Be willing to be scattered. Practice frugality. Don’t throw money at a need.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. inflation, at the cost of the (then) worst recession since the 1930s. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Local Agua Tehuacán began costing more than imported Perrier. They cannot engineer a currency crash to cut imports, raise exports, and begin to bail out.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

But as their availability increased and their cost decreased — as they became ubiquitous — they became commodity inputs. Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered.". million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The idea to design and build a $300 house first appeared here on the HBR site in August 2010, in a post by me (Vijay Govindarajan) and Christian Sarkar, and then again as one of several ideas in the HBR Agenda 2011. How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem? Boniface Haiti Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. percent lower than its value in 2007. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Reiter Thinks

JUNE 8, 2011

This is part two of the blog, To the class of 2011. It picks up with my predictions for what the class of 2011 might expect now as they move forward with their lives over the next couple of years. You go away to college and have no idea how much it costs. Education at any cost is silly. You’re an adult now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. For example, consider Zynga’s decision, announced in 2011, to build its own datacenters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. And the numbers tell a similar story: startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. display advertisements online.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. In some respect, every person's compensation is configured as a base plus commission. Is payroll difficult?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

And, it can’t be solved by allocating costs and adding markups. The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. These are two very simple concepts.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. All Rights Reserved

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. What is their longevity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel.in

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Thanks Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above!

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

but are still, as is clear from the chart below, costing companies a lot of money. Defense attorney costs are harder to get at, but indications are that they add up to another 10% or more of settlements. Economy Finance Risk management' billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. Bratton and Michael L.

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