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What can you do with a software engineering degree?

Strategy Driven

Software engineering jobs deal with very varied fields of computer science, which also apply to a wide spectrum of fields, such as business, scientific research, medicine, production, logistics, banking, meteorology, law, networks and much more. Systems Engineering specializes in the increase and execution of information techniques.

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Take Accountability for Your Own Success

Harvard Business Review

For example, many years ago I was working with a project team at what was then Chase Manhattan Bank when a once-in-a-decade snowstorm shut down New York City for several days. Human beings have an almost infinite capacity to rationalize failure.

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Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers

Harvard Business Review

That’s exactly what one bank is attempting by encouraging its managers to spend more time with clients and less time poring over research. The bank started out working with a small number of account managers and clients to identify developments that would improve the business.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

And the impact of competitive information on an organization’s decisions is one of those things that can hardly ever be measured. Since impact can’t be measured and therefore results can’t be directly attributed to the competitive information, management resorts to measuring the wrong thing, exactly as Drucker feared.

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Three Smart Moves Brought LinkedIn This Far

Harvard Business Review

Now that it has cash in the bank, it will have to acquire the right companies that will help it expand its services and market reach. (It Judith Hurwitz is President & CEO of Hurwitz & Associates and focuses on the business benefits of emerging enterprise technology including cloud computing, service management, and information management.

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The Biases That Punish Racially Diverse Teams

Harvard Business Review

Tech companies, banks, consulting firms, you name it — all are scrambling to create diverse and inclusive environments. Without counter information, managers’ biases may stunt the progress of diverse teams, and unwittingly undermine the opportunity for the benefits of diversity to emerge in the organization.

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If Your Company Isn’t Good at Analytics, It’s Not Ready for AI

Harvard Business Review

With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. Armed with this information, managers can then allocate products better, and, see why choices are made. Meanwhile, companies that automate basic data manipulation processes can be proactive.

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