The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. Virtually all of the discussion that I have seen mentions or implies that the system itself is broken. Almost no substantive discussion about how to fix the system.

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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. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Much has been learned in the professional world about quality, which could be useful to our educational system. Franz, The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement, McGraw-Hill, 2011, pp. Liker and James K.

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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). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What are you passionate about? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached).

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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). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 What are you passionate about? I use a tool I have developed to help companies Vision statement worksheet (attached).

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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | September 09, 2010 at 07:56 AM Not only is that post an unbelievably efficient statement of life-changing truths, but its also an almost ironic testimony to the power of the "different game" those who have access to your blog, training system, etc. are playing. Your comment has not yet been posted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Perhaps the least concerning implication is that there is systemic bias in our information feeds, that we operate in and are informed by tiny echo chambers. It’s a grotesque irony that our experiences of the world wide web today are actually pretty local, despite warnings from the likes of Eli Pariser back in 2011.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Setting up a Criteria Ranking System There are different ways to set up a system. When choosing your system put them all on the same scale 1 to 3, 1 to 5, 1 to 10 so that you can better align each factor with each other. XY-Axis by ideaWallets – Use a Cartesian coordinate system to sort your ideas and find patterns.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). And one of the principle goals of A.I.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. Comparing the five years between 2012 and 2016 to the period between 2007 and 2011, U.S.

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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 salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). 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. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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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. “We hired a talent acquisition leader from the software industry, someone who really understood technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. A final lesson from the technology industry suggests that support for women’s advancement must go beyond networking and forums towards true sponsorship and career advancement opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. These new capabilities connect to the work we’ve done over the past several decades inside our enterprises to automate processes with tools — such as accounting systems, supply chain, call center, and such.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public.

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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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This decision promises to accelerate the flood of patent litigation, which shows that the recent America Invents Act does not go far enough to fix the patent system. The case in question, Classen Immunotherapies v. The role of patents in the growth of innovation needs to be restored.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. And is the key to success here the technology, or fundamental segmentation and buying-process criteria? are picking up steam.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The system allows “equipment and computers [to] talk to each other over the internet in real time, share information, and make decisions [to] help ensure top-notch product quality and avoid plant shutdowns.”

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. 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. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. It started with just a few dozen people, but as we grew, (2977 employees have attended our yearly summit as of January 2011) I would inevitably get questions about how long we could keep holding such a meeting. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Our system is at risk due to increasing inequality.”. The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch. “Inequality is bad.” Inequality is dangerous.” “Our

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

By then Apple and Google were already dominant in mobile operating systems, and Facebook was surging ahead in apps. Mentions of mobile were more than three times higher in 2012, the year she started, than in 2011, and the uptick happened when she was hired. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

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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. Build smart support systems. Smarter support systems are intended to de-bureaucratize work and to help people prioritize more value-added work.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

It may well be that some Self-Starters lack the equipment, technology, or funding needed to perform well and have simply given up. Storage Technology Corporation (“StorageTek”) and U S WEST Inc. In other cases leaders may be playing favorites and causing those not in the inner circle to quit making meaningful contributions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

We''re not a technology firm." "We The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). He''ll protest: "What wartime?" "We''re million, including $35.9

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The goal of the Health Acceleration Challenge is similar to that of this HBR-NEJM Insight Center : to serve as a platform to share proven innovations in health care in order to help encourage adoption across geographies, systems, and care-delivery settings. Application questions focused on potential impact (e.g., evidence (e.g.,

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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 recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. Cambridge, U.K. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. In 2011 the board selected as the new CEO one of its own members, Heinrich Hiesinger, a Siemens executive with experience supplying technology to many industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Unfortunately, things haven't quite worked out as planned. The pendulum swung too far."

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