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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. consultants, etc.),

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Just How Important Is Manufacturing?

Harvard Business Review

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.

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What Managers Can Do to Keep Women in Engineering

Harvard Business Review

Ten of the engineers were in the early stages of their careers, 19 were mid-career, and five were in late career. Angelika, a petroleum engineer at PET, explained: When I was given this challenge, I really didn’t know how to do it. It developed my confidence so that I now think I can do higher-level work.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Prepare Your Workforce for the Automation Age

Harvard Business Review

As companies introduce software bots and digital self-service, and as they transform assembly lines, they must bring along their key employees, leaders, and customers as they redefine jobs, career paths, workforce management, and social contracts. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Senen Perfecto Thanks Mike!

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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention. But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning.