Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

.  As Tichy argues in his book, Leadership Engine , effective leaders have a teachable point of view that they share as a platform for action.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    Immelt has done that repeatedly since 2005. 

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 10, 2008

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Uncategorized I just remembered you… RSS Feed I just remembered you… By Rajesh Setty on Sat 09 Aug 2008, 11:17 PM - View Comments Since last week, I have been receiving requests about the new search engine Scour. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. In China, I have found that a different mindset dominates.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

He aggressively re-engineered the startup’s product to match the competitor’s offering. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) The competitor fought back too. After a few years of dog fight, both companies closed down citing lack of customer traction.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Ackoff: 1919 -2009 – Dr. Russell Ackoff Webcast on Systems Thinking – Designing a New Organization (2005).

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) The architecture is such that we could easily white-label our solution.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

They both shared the scientist and engineering mindset that ideas should be tested and probed and new methods and ideas discovered. ” He discussed Paul O’Neill’s influence on his thinking ; I agree that Paul has done some very impressive work in health care. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005. Guest post by Mark Graban. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 One of the most notorious examples of a post-M&A culture misfit is the 2005 merger of Kansas-based Sprint and Nextel. in 2005), recently acquired TalkIQ , a leader in the artificial intelligence and machine learning, and our shared culture and values have been a key factor to the success of this deal.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  "  If you reverse engineer it back to the beginning, you'll almost certainly see that you had a ton of direct and indirect help from people you've met along the way.  Nothing gets done by yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

In two separate studies (by Ho and Jackson in 2001 and by Lin and colleagues in 2005), participants generated lists of all stereotypes they had heard about Asians. Asians were rated as lower on leadership overall, but more so in sales than engineering. Stereotypes About Asian Americans.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

A Unilever R&D team in India first developed and introduced the countertop product, which includes innovative four-stage germ kill technology, in Chennai, India in early 2005. Indian engineers working for Panasonic and its outsourced partners are now designing products for other tropical emerging countries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

I decided to launch my own business in 2005, but stayed in my job for an additional year, while taking professional development classes — that my employer paid for — on topics I knew I’d need to learn, such as financial management, design, and business strategy. That was my strategy as well.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

Terra Networks agreed to buy internet search-engine leader Lycos in 2000 for $12.5 In 2005, News Corp was lauded for its $850 million purchase of MySpace — later sold off for peanuts. There were many problems with Sprint's 2005 $36 billion deal with Nextel. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

For example: when I left Wall Street in 2005, I was writing a children's book and pitching a reality TV show about soccer in Latin America: neither transpired. If, for example, after leaving Wall Street in 2005, I had continued to gauge my success based on money earned, I was nothing short of a failure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

After leaving GE, as the President and CEO of Aircraft Engines for three years, he spent five years as CEO of 3M, then left to become CEO of Boeing from 2005 to date. It’s partly based on the fact that her new job is not another CEO role. James McNerney, Jr is another example. His average CEO time has been 5.3

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Our websites are for Bing, Yahoo, and Google search engines, but the apps are for Google Android, Apple iOS, RIM Blackberry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Nokia Symbian. According to Gartner, there were 2 billion mobile handsets in 2005; today, it's 5 billion. This is especially true as consumers move to mobile.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

The 2005 refinery disaster at BP’s Texas City is an example of what can happen when these investments get neglected. It’s fashionable to put your engineers onto solving customer problems. But then one day you realize you’ve de-skilled your product engineers because they’re no longer inventing new things.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below. of sales) on “technology and content.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. One of the most frequent challenges we observe in the field is that companies tend to radically underestimate the threat that disruptive change poses to their business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

In a landmark 2005 Harvard Business Review article , USC business professors Warren Bennis and James O’Toole argued that the skills imparted by most business schools were not relevant to students and their eventual employers. Why should business research and business professors be any different?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The flywheel was used by James Watt over 200 years ago in his steam engine, the invention that powered the Industrial Revolution. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. These days, instead of talking about the funnel, we talk about the flywheel. For us, flywheel is a powerful metaphor.

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B2C Energy Marketing Efficiency 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. safety engineers group — a refreshing bit of out-of-the-circle thinking. Every time I encounter a crap circle my heart sinks. I aim to change that.

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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. It took a few years to get things back on track, but from 2005-2010 Apple's innovation premium jumped to 52%. Can he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

Among the 3,000 Asian men and women surveyed by the CWLP, 25% feel they face bias in the workplace; a 2005 Gallup survey put the figure at an even higher 31%. Not only are Asians a vital part of the white-collar pipeline generally, they are also particularly well-qualified in the fields of science, engineering, and technology.

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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’s network at Google went well beyond the engineering unit he was a part of. One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data.

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Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

I looked at quarterly earnings call transcripts for Yahoo and two of its competitors from late 2005 to the first quarter of 2016 and counted mentions of “mobile,” “phone,” or “smartphone.” Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones? Or did they get it and just fail to execute?

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CEO Content Long-term Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

A famous example is YouTube, which began as a video dating site back in 2005. Former Polaroid CEO DiCamillo summarizes the company’s failure well : “The reason we couldn’t stop the engine was that instant film was the core of the financial model of this company.” As we now know, the company lost to rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities. You have to go out and look for opportunities, which is what Ron Walker and I did in 2005. What is missing in cities is not revitalizing new ideas. Money follows data, and there isn't much data on the urban enterprise.

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Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

At the macro level, Modi will probably strive to build a globally competitive manufacturing sector that will become India’s much-needed job-creation engine. may be on the defensive because it denied Modi a diplomatic visa in 2005 , but American multinationals, like all foreign companies, will find him extremely approachable.

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Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Happened in 2005 and was unquestionably the right move. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. In that case, the problem is execution and the appropriate action is to find and correct what isn't working. IBM-Lenovo. GE-NBC/Universal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

This role is common in technology, engineering, and life sciences companies, where domain expertise in narrow and arcane areas can be crucial to market success. In 2014 the company shelled out $650 million to buy AI startup DeepMind Technologies and went to great lengths to keep that firm’s 50 AI scientists and engineers in place.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 19, 2010

Sanitation Engineer, more affectionately known as a “Garbage Man”. From 7AM to 3PM, five days a week, my teammates and I went up and down the alleys and streets of our town, collecting the trash, putting it into the back of large compactor truck, and then taking it to a “transfer center”.

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