N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. In today’s blog post I’ll examine why design matters.

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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. ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Written in a clear, professional and straightforward manner, it is relevant to the management of all types of projects, including IT, construction, engineering, telecommunications and government, as well as many others. The trick is to be focused. Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? The review says - The utility of formal protocols, according to organizational experts, varies with the nature of the activity—some activities are highly systemized, like engineering, and others dependent on the judgment and personality of the individual.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. That gave us roughly four months to get the project done and edited (while also running a fast growing software company). Lindquist, in his 30's, is the President and CEO of Zane Benefits, Inc. He joined Zane Benefits as its thirteenth employee in 2007.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2012

There’s no reason for your voice to be muted, and (through search engines and social media) every opportunity to be found. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Now, you’re your own publishing house. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. All rights reserved.

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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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. Michael Hammer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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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. Consider leaving a comment!

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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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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. Universities are rapidly growing their engineering courses. Venture capitalists are creating software engineering academies in their own cities.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

When we first decided to move the headquarters of our software company from Atlanta, we didn''t think of Silicon Valley. Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. Our intention for Hook & Loop was not to hire the best and brightest software developers.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The other day I was working with a fast growth software company that had decided one of the criteria was revenue growth. Software Applications for Decision Making Decision Making Tool – CO2 Partners uses this form for helping clients make decisions. What does that even mean to you? It is easy to use and very straight forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

“Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” He hired Nokia engineers, who were accustomed to thinking about what digital forms appeal to consumers, to redesign radio and navigation systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

based software company that went public just last year, I know this well. From the beginning we would get all employees together once a year to build relationships and instill core values that would ultimately help us to make some bold moves that disrupted the software industry sector we entered. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Avaya’s 2011 Net Promoter Score (NPS) was in the 20s (on a scale of -100 to +100), suggesting that it would have a hard time keeping the customers it had, let alone grow on word of mouth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. GE Digital has built software capabilities, very different from the people GE has in its core businesses. Dedicated teams like these benefit from the company’s core business, its Performance Engine while they create future opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Today, a firm without application program interfaces (APIs) that allow software programs to interact with each other is like the internet without the World Wide Web. The API is the core engine driving this strategy. Then TweekDeck, a third-party developer, built a better user interface on top of the Twitter engine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This ambitious goal envisioned a software program that learns by ‘observing and learning from the past, acting in the present and anticipating the future.’ In 2008, with the agreement of DARPA, a private company co-founded by three of the engineers from SRI International was spun out of the CALO project.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Brian specialized in open-source software development and he quickly became a champion within the company for various initiatives focused on end users.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

The first 20 people at DataStax were nearly all engineers, and having them distributed was not controversial. Billy Bosworth joined DataStax as CEO in May 2011 and propelled the company’s growth from sub-$1 million in revenue and 25 employees to more than $100 million in revenue and over 500 employees today.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Digital is something quite different: it How do we get hundreds or thousands of people to come up with thousands of ideas and decisions with little physical manifestation (software), and align all into a single solution that runs and meets valuable needs? Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

The best software developer at Apple, for example, writes nine times more useable code each day than the average software engineer in Silicon Valley. When the US Government located Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, it didn’t assemble a “balanced team” of soldiers to take him out.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Atomic Object, a software company in Michigan, put in place a standing-only rule in meetings, to keep them focused and short.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

George Gallegos, CEO of Jitterbit, the data integration software provider based in Oakland, California, is not a top-down leader. ” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers. .” ” In 2011, when Gallegos first started at Jitterbit, the company had about 50 customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

citizen, earn engineering degrees from Stanford, and work at IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Instead, we invested in software and analytics. Similarly, in 2011, HP was declining at a precipitous rate. At that moment, looking up from the bottom of the escalator, the idea that I would one day run a technology company seemed unfathomable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. There is other evidence that the reported clicks and other alleged user-data on many social media sites are simply unreliable.

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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. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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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%. Tech companies see engineers move to and fro frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In Science , a team of Harvard-affiliated researchers published their findings that GFT has over-estimated the prevalence of flu for 100 out of the last 108 weeks; it’s been wrong since August 2011. They don’t matter.” Or, “Since Facebook has a billion accounts, it has substantively everyone.”. Can we do better?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Nothhaft is the chairman and CEO of technology miniaturization firm Tessera and the author, with David Kline, of the upcoming book Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership forthcoming June 2011 from Harvard Business Review Press.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

In this case, “the machine” refers to a real machine: the highly sophisticated automated software Starbucks uses to schedule its 130,000 baristas, sometimes giving them less than a few day’s notice about their schedules in order to “optimize” its workforce.

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