Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 14, 2018
Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.
The Recovering Engineer
JULY 29, 2010
The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Did it offer us more positive or more negative?
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Skip Prichard
AUGUST 25, 2019
On one occasion, the company sent a civil engineer to the top of a 500-foot cooling tower to do a walkdown. Tim asked the engineer: “What are you looking for while you’re up there?” The engineer mentioned concrete that’s falling or cracking, the handrail weakening, things like that, and then joked: “You should come with me.”.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
The same can be true if you are in an engineering job without the right credentials, or a senior finance job without an MBA or an advanced degree in finance. If your speed bump is a lack of the right skills, it helps to first do a quick cost/benefit analysis to see if investing in an upgrade will be worth it.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2013
Is it cost competitive? Using standard cost-benefit analysis, the study compared some natural solutions to more traditional infrastructure investments. Together, green and gray solutions combine some of the resilience inherent in natural systems with the way an engineered solution can solve a specific challenge.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. DuckDuckGo — a search engine that allows users to access it anonymously — saw the number of daily queries double in the second half of 2013, and reach more than 7 million in early 2015.
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Usability drives adoptability, and therefore it pays to keep things simple.
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