Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

The cost per employee is half the EU average, and the number of days spent on training is at its lowest since 2011. This focus on short-term challenges neglects the development of essential management and leadership skills. So, it gives me a lot more opportunity in the projects I can get involved in.

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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. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership. Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science. And that was a sincere concern of his.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models. I Think Not.

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

There have been some really great reads on the topic ranging from the 2011 ebook, Race Against the Machine by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson out of MIT, to the recent LinkedIn post, What Happens When Millions of Jobs Are Lost Because of Automation? Automation and the future of work. Are enough citizens taking this topic seriously?

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Education Wireless Resistance Technology 155

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Breaking Away: How Great Leaders Create Innovation That Drives Sustainable Growth – and Why Others Fail Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani McGraw-Hill (2011) How and why to create a “magic mix” of innovation leadership with innovation processes Year after year, annual lists of the most highly creative organizations include “the usual suspects”: Amazon, (..)

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 304

Women's Leadership Exchange

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Second, he is a perfectionist when it comes to both engineering and design. He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life. Steve Jobs KNOWS and is totally confident in creating innovative break-through products and making the final decisions regarding them.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 330

Coaching Tip

MARCH 13, 2011

Google clearly hopes to recapture some of the nimbleness and innovative spirit of its early years. Let the engineers do their stuff. Source: The New York Times, March 13, 2011. But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? They wanted to build better bosses.

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Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Women in the LEAD A B O U T U S H O W T O C O M M E N T Recent Posts WOMEN: LEADERSHIP is How TO BE WOMEN: Love, Respect and Leadership WOMEN: Is Negative Thinking Holding You Back? RE-ENGINEERING MISTAKES. Let's take it back and re-engineer it."   Peter F.   Peter F.   Peter F.

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Advice Drucker Leadership Letter 45

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 399

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2013

Gore & Associates, the materials firm famous for innovative products such as Gore-Tex and for its radically nonhierarchical management structure. Software engineers and designers are basing their thinking on what has come to be called Dunbar’s Number. . An Integrated Leadership Team. So do the offices of W.L.

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Energy Tips Software Engineering 117

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 27, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. When thinking of hard skills these are skills that create hard data and tangible outcomes.

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Team Building Skills Team Open-book 119

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? People get blinded so much by checklist that they stop innovating, experimenting and learning. You can have detailed checklists for specific engineering activities (where outcomes solely depend on inputs and process). Why checklists? Don’t Kill It!

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Process Management Quality Tools 84

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

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. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. I Think Not. Our Freedom.

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Blog Content Media Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. What keeps you from gifting your kindness? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Open-book 206

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Here's link to a post of mine a couple of years ago: Dan Nigro, Rick Rescorla and the Leadership Lessons of 9/11 [link]. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 12, 2011

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003. What we have here is a series of brief discussions “the most influential management books you’ll [.].

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Books Review Management Ansoff 85

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

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?

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 324

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

They were desperately looking for great engineers, designers, and business people – but were very picky about who they hired. Facebook’s method for spreading a shared mindset in new engineers and technical employees has become more systematic and exacting as the company has expanded. Did you see that?”.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. She is a seasoned business professional and author, who brings a wealth of real-world experience and an innovative style to her position at Hammer and Company.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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Executive Coaching Brainstorming Tools Decisionmaking 79

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. Best regards, Dan scottgould Mike, This is so good.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 402

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. The weighting of criteria is increased by one multiple per item.

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Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Brainstorming Execution 68

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Google your name periodically. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

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?

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