N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

One innovation I’m particularly excited about is the experimental approach we are taking to evaluate different hybrid work approaches, working with several volunteer engineering and sales leaders. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

Each year, businesses in the United States waste about $8 billion managing paper alone. If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Electronic Forms Improve Data Accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. As the senior HR executive in charge of managing overseas assignments, Anton Danois made a point of spending time with Streuvels Chemicals' expatriate employees and their families.

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Case Study Chemicals ROI Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. I really do think the company''s at a stage where it could benefit from having an operations person running it. She was a great manager, a great leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But it was clear that Guillermo was much more of an engineer than a businessman, and despite his outgoing nature, he hadn’t been able to find new mentors or investors. operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ram had led the technical analysis and design teams for their residential and commercial real estate projects, and Hari had overseen the small team of civil engineers in the field.

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Case Study Real Estate Travel Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Six months before, a third of Canadian Jet’s fleet had been grounded for a week owing to some engine safety concerns, causing a slew of cancellations and delays.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

It has also helped shape the practice of management. Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. How Google manages. How Google innovates.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

.” Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Friends since their engineering days at Stanford, VV Tikekar and Reza Rastegar had each been involved in several start-ups before joining forces on AndFound.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

” Your interpersonal relationships with insecure employees also tend to be more complicated, says Mary Shapiro, a professor at Simmons College School of Management and the author of HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Clarify expectations.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

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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. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. There were still posters in the hallway glass cases celebrating the new approach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2016

However, looking at the surveys and consulting reports, it is unclear what the precise use cases are that will drive this positive ROI from big data. Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Four times each year, we launch a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS, where they will stay for six months to one year, performing engineering tasks, research, maintenance, and upgrades to prepare for future commercial vehicles. Training crew members to manage their care. A Case Study: Conducting Ultrasounds in Space.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. Case Study: Putting This into Practice.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

While this used to be the case primarily for country managers and those taking on overseas assignments, it now applies to all managers. Smart managers at smart companies are usually somewhat prepared for cross-cultural collaboration. Managers of global teams often end up building a hybrid culture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” Case Study #1: Make small adjustments to your environment, and look for ways to enhance your job description. ” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Capitalism might be the greatest engine of prosperity and progress ever devised, but in recent years, individuals and communities have grown increasingly disgruntled with the implicit contract that governs the rights and responsibilities of business. How do we stretch management timeframes and perspectives?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). Using standard cost-benefit analysis, the study compared some natural solutions to more traditional infrastructure investments. But is this kind of green infrastructure approach generally as effective?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. Make generous use of relevant case studies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Mornings consisted of lectures and case studies in a traditional classroom in the Stanford Business School; this was the “clean models” part of the program. Change management Customer service Informal leadership' Build organizations where people feel “I own the place, and the place owns me.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

The biomedical search engine at PubMed.gov reports only 3 records from 1992 on hospitals and benchmarking , but reports 1,412 from the decade 2005-2014. This makes it a useful case study for our purposes here. Managing Yourself Book. Further Reading. Keeping Up with the Quants. Davenport and Jinho Kim.

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Benchmarking Comparison Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Most obviously, the Internet of Things has the power to profoundly change operations — that’s where much of the coverage of this burgeoning network has focused. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. This includes digital product managers and data scientists.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Reimagining capitalism for a new age and a new set of challenges is a sweeping undertaking. It's not enough to change one company. It's crucial to advance the entire ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A colleague who doesn’t listen can also “have very negative consequences from an operational standpoint — there are often a lot of mistakes because projects don’t get executed correctly.” If upper management isn’t on board, it’s going to fall apart. Is there anything I can help you with?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? Your new manager likely has a lot on her plate, so take responsibility for establishing a great working relationship from the start. But it was so sensitive to me, so emotionally intelligent to me as the new manager.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

. “If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

No two organizations are the same, and neither are the cultures and contexts in which they operate. Does your organization prefer weekly staff meeting announcements, newsletter case study examples, quarterly prizes for model behavior, or financial incentives? Work those into your behavior change strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Most obviously, the Internet of Things has the power to profoundly change operations — that’s where much of the coverage of this burgeoning network has focused. These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. This includes digital product managers and data scientists.

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Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In the era of Big Data, analytics are becoming a competitive necessity for many managers. For some managers, this is intimidating. Your goal, after all, is to be the kind of manager who not only understands formulas and analytic methods, but also knows how to “interpret [results] to make better decisions and improve efficiency.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. This included a call for action — “Act Today, Shape Tomorrow” — that was backed by Coty’s senior management.

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