Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 1, 2023

Head of HR, Civil Engineering Company It's definitely been a motivating factor for people who have never had the opportunity, they recognise that this is a great chance to get a qualification as well as learning to become better at their jobs and they get that satisfaction of delivering more effectively in their role.

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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! Photo: Adobe . .

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. Engineering Department: Use electronic forms for engineering change orders, defect tracking, and requests for product enhancement. Electronic Forms Improve Data Accuracy.

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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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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. Despite her emotions, Ana made a studied observation, ever the engineer: "The spouse's life — that's the weakest point of expatriation, isn't it?" she asked. "We

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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. He took the spoon and returned it to Camilla.

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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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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

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The workers standing near him applauded.

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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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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Niche consultants believe these things to be true, within their frames of reference.

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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. Guest post by Mark Graban. General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college.

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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. A Case Study: Conducting Ultrasounds in Space. Apollo, Skylab, ISS, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

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. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The result is underinvestment in infrastructure, education, and technology, all of which could be — but aren’t, Stiglitz says — engines of future American prosperity. A classic case of disruption? That’s one among several Bain recommendations for fighting the fickle nature of consumers. DRIVING INTO THE REGULATION DITCH.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A digital platform, or a digital solution, may enable a new epoch of transformative growth, but when you get under a company’s hood and look to see what’s really driving it, the engine of transformation turns out to be its business model. These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service.

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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. Put all your eggs in your professional basket.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

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. In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? The answer, in most cases, is no. city that’s less competitive than Silicon Valley.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Case Study #1: Knowing when to adapt. In the 1990s, he was transferred to an operations position in the Middle East. The engineering team he worked with was made up of several Arabs, most from different countries. One of the rigs they operated wasn't working and they all met to address the issue. And it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In the 1990s, Procter & Gamble’s Product Supply Organization kicked off a major Reliability Engineering program, much like the efficiency initiatives of companies such as Toyota. While not historically dedicated to connected devices, these companies are good case studies for the commercialization and valuation of their data assets.

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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

APRIL 25, 2018

Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Case Study #1: Help your employee feel comfortable and emphasize the importance of learning. “Peter was a computer science engineer who’d been programming for 10 years — the basic founding blocks were there.

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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. Back in 2006, my colleague Huggy Rao and I launched an executive education program at Stanford called “Customer-focused Innovation.” Scaling starts and ends with individuals.

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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. To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

New managers will be able to see through excessive boasting or kissing up pretty quickly, and most are wary of overt political operators. Case Study #1: Adapt to the boss’s communication style. ” Case Study #2: Make a connection and bring solutions. Don’t lay it on too thick — or too thin.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Operations in a Connected World. It turned out that on the first shift the airflow was weaker because there were more lines operating using the same technology than at night. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That founder himself booted from the CEO role later on by VCs, only to watch the company’s initial CEO return to the day-to-day operations alongside yet another chief executive, who joined well after the founding. Another ousted from the CEO role by a co-founder, former boss, and seed investor.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

So while “a good operations executive might have an intuitive feel for what could work in the business,” that manager should never pressure an analyst to seek out numbers to support his or her opinion. Case Study #1: Cultivate an environment of curiosity and experimentation. In college, he majored in philosophy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Together with Harvard Business Review and the Management Innovation eXchange, we have issued a challenge calling for the most instructive case studies and provocative ideas that will help us re-imagine capitalism for the long term. The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In a recent New York Times video on both disasters , one former engineer, Rodney Rocha, recalls asking why his request was rejected. ” At NASA, notes Rocha, “part of our engineering culture is that you work through your chain of command. I will regret always why I didn’t break down the door by myself.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

” Another way to ease out of micromanaging is to discretely seek feedback from other coworkers about how your team is operating, says Dillon. ” In the latter case, you need to “find a way [to support the work] that doesn’t involve peering over your employees’ shoulders.” ” Build t rust.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

This disruption originates not from one of the e-wallet insurgents or from one of the global payments mega-players, but has been engineered top-down by the government. According to our study, the Cost of Cash in India , these institutions spend $3.5 billion annually in currency operations costs.

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