N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

Tactics 63

Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 63

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

Even governance of operations can be encoded into blockchain networks and artificial intelligence. VR offers a powerful sense of immersion, making you feel like you are transported to another place. Business operations must be retooled using both process automation and worker augmentation. Better supply chains. A new reality.

Technology 92

Technology Innovation Supply Chain Company 92

Curious Cat

JUNE 29, 2016

Indeed, to avoid the fines, airlines are now far more likely to cancel flights that are sitting at the gate or on the tarmac than they once were, explains Vikrant Vaze, an assistant professor of engineering at Dartmouth and a co-author of the study. It doesn’t seem the conditions imposed are unreasonable to me.

Airlines 49

Airlines Transportation System Engineering 49

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. The ‘Wastes’ of Execution: Transportation.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Over a billion cars currently are on the road worldwide and a billion mobile devices use Android software, but these converging means of transportation and communication are barely connected. Consider new software for cars.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In a similar way, industrial companies that combine the digital and the physical open entirely new dimensions in the way they operate and in the value they can provide to customers and shareholders. GE now employs 14,000 software engineers. As a result, machine uptime, throughput, and inventory turnovers increase.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. Resource allocation: i ncubating a protected class of ideas.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Ford mastered mass production of cars with internal combustion engines a century ago. Can the industrial titan reinvent itself in a climate-conscious world?

Engineering 11

Engineering Industry Productivity Products 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The bike must be impeccably maintained — oil, gas, gears, engine — and the rider must know it intimately, down to the depth of the tire treads to the millimeter. But in Africa (or, for that matter, anywhere else), if reliable transportation is not part of the health-care delivery system, people die. Barry should know.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The National Highway Transportation Authority (NHTSA) , the government arm responsible for enforcing auto safety, came under attack for being too soft on Toyota. Liker is a professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan and is author, with Timothy N. So who won in this debacle?

Crisis 15

Crisis Transportation Public Relations Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Rethink product design , choosing fewer and simpler features that better suit the market instead of over-engineering.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers. So, how did GE do it?

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

Toward this end, my colleagues and I at Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering have been striving to bring the power of machine-learning algorithms to this critical problem. In response, hospitals are increasingly making analytics and new technologies an integral part of hospital operations.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Technology Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

We need dramatic improvements in energy and water efficiency, and massive rollouts of renewable energy and clean transportation technologies. Even more important to the redesign of GE, this portfolio of products has been a growth engine, providing ballast against the serious pain of the financial meltdown of 2008. billion people.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Energy Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Companies seem to be using CSR efforts to counteract or distract attention from the negative toll they exert on society through poor treatment of their workers, poor stewardship of the earth’s resources, poor management of investors’ dollars, or, even simply, poor customer service. Consumers aren’t falling for the trick.

Brand 12

Brand Supply Chain Price Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Tech titans such as Google and Amazon are working to connect more and more types of objects to the web by offering mobile interfaces for managing just about anything. Those systems can now transmit real-time data about the performance of industrial machines as well as the components of energy and transportation systems.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Opportunities were abundant, especially with used cars, since so many dealers were panicking and slashing their inventories even as demand for affordable transportation increased. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over.

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Managers in these organizations translate corporate objectives into a few straightforward guidelines that help employees make on-the-spot decisions and adapt to constantly shifting environments, while keeping the big picture in mind. Its new management team took over an organization that was bureaucratic, overstaffed, and bleeding cash.

Strategy 8

Strategy Proposal Guidelines Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory.

Business Model 8

Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The trick, and it is a difficult one, is to add just enough complexity so that people can do their work, but not so much that “they feel as if they are walking in muck” as Twitter’s SVP of engineering Chris Fry puts it. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

Case Study 10

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Airlines Hotels 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Today, a few organizations – like Medium, David Allen Consultants, and Zappos – are adopting a radically different, approach to management: holacracy. For all of the sturm und drang surrounding the idea, as we talked I realized a lot of holacracy is just codifying many of the informal elements of good management.

Groupthink 8

Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In an industry that involves selling machines that transport humans at fast speeds, the notion that employees wouldn’t be encouraged to discuss safety seems odd. In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations. Design for inclusion.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

We see advances in materials, processes, and information technology that will make possible entirely new kinds of products and can radically alter how manufacturers operate. Pharmaceutical companies are mastering bio-engineering techniques that will help develop personalized medicines. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. And if so, how?

Management 10

Management Real Estate Human Resources Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

But in addition to such familiar jobs such as engineer, consultant, or financial analyst, we’re increasingly seeing new job titles emerge: forensic technologist, digital storyteller, and marketing automation manager. Labor market data tell us that these “hybrid” jobs are rapidly on the rise.

Education 8

Education Engineering System Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2016

The second is that money spent on transportation is too often squandered on megaprojects that have great ribbon-cutting moments but don’t “fix” traffic because they are based on myth and obsolete thinking. Down the line, automation will allow buses to operate like virtually linked trains at a fraction of the cost of rail.

Parcell 8

Parcell Transportation Incentives Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

When the engineers and operators they hire lack real-world building experience, the organization has to teach them. Boeing’s “Opportunities for New Engineers” program, for example, allows employees to physically create aerospace products. With senior engineers as mentors, participants learn by doing.

Engineering 8

Engineering Competitive Advantage Knowledge Management Outsourcing 8