Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

You employ engineers, plant managers, economists, IT managers and marketing directors from all over the world. A 2011 white paper jointly published by the GlobalEnglish Corporation and Human Capital Institute reported that 70% of global employees are non-native speakers – and only 7% think they speak English well enough to do their jobs.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 7, 2011

That Fall when I went to the university, many of my fellow students choose to become engineers to meet this international threat. The Russians are in the process of nearly tripling the cost of using their Soyuz crew capsules for transport to the orbiting base, and other countries have little choice but to pay up. But today, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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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

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

The innovation initiative was born from our Organizational Growth Team, a cross-functional internal team formed in 2011 to focus on investing in Genecians, evolving our capabilities, and predictably delivering value to clients. What is the overhead (cost of support/resources)? Operational Strategy. The Innovation Group is Born.

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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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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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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. You can have detailed checklists for specific engineering activities (where outcomes solely depend on inputs and process). Why checklists?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. The thankyou doesn’t cost the company anything and consider the benefits in productivity and loyalty! What keeps you from gifting your kindness? When I have been thanked in the past I am so ready to work harder.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. It is not enough to be a good surgeon, a civil engineer or a litigation lawyer. Today, half of Symantec’s patents are filed by engineers from outside the United States. We live in a complex world.

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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

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

MAY 9, 2012

Unbalanced teams grow more so over time, as like hires like, resulting in an operation with lopsided competencies. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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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

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology hypothesizes that people follow because the benefits of doing so outweigh the costs of going it alone or fighting to become the leader of a group. Followers who were happy with the costs and benefits of membership stayed with the group; those who were not either left to join other groups or battled for the top spots.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. We can have engineering work more closely with production. To demonstrate their deep commitment, in December 2011 GE rolled out team leader training.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.". Trends need not be domestic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Tom Watson, Jr. ” 6.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

After all, one of the big reasons that insurers sell long term policies is the high up-front cost of selling. It can be difficult to recoup the cost of initiating a policy when the duration is only a few days or weeks. GE is moving to an outcome-based economic model, bringing the company closer to its customers’ operations.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2015

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. Operations Competitive strategy Technology' The first step was to hire someone to run it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. Cambridge, U.K. and the U.K.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. According to Mergermarket, the value of investment activity rose from $111 million in 2010 to $829 million in 2011, while the number of deals doubled from 33 to 66. Bye-bye to the clunkier and more costly PC.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Take our survey and download “How Not to Cut Health Care Costs” as a thank you. The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

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. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Any measure to minimize piracy for a company such as Google would increase operating costs.

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Safe Harbor Download Content Politics 11

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

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. inflation, at the cost of the (then) worst recession since the 1930s. Local Agua Tehuacán began costing more than imported Perrier. Why can the U.S. Imports surged.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The CIO of HP Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. The future model for MOC must strive to achieve the aims of better physician competence, better system competence, and lower cost over time.

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