N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

and “How do I ensure we’re prepared for an inevitable crisis?” As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. How broadly should I think about ‘purpose’?”, “When should and shouldn’t I/we take a public stand on societal issues?”, Question: There is so much to learn from CEO Excellence.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

and “How do I ensure we’re prepared for an inevitable crisis?” As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. How broadly should I think about ‘purpose’?”, “When should and shouldn’t I/we take a public stand on societal issues?”, Question: There is so much to learn from CEO Excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

Our habits will mold into new shapes, habits and routines that may endure once the current crisis has passed. When the current crisis is over, that investment remains, and the barriers to shifting at least some of the curriculum online are already gone. Human habits work much the same way. Businesses routines will have to change too.

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. Well coordinated and managed, it celebrated the best that the profession has to offer. Listen to their discussion here !

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

and “How do I ensure we’re prepared for an inevitable crisis?” As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. How broadly should I think about ‘purpose’?”, “When should and shouldn’t I/we take a public stand on societal issues?”, Question: There is so much to learn from CEO Excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

and “How do I ensure we’re prepared for an inevitable crisis?” As a young engineer before founding Netflix, he’d work late nights and consume a lot of coffee. How broadly should I think about ‘purpose’?”, “When should and shouldn’t I/we take a public stand on societal issues?”, Question: There is so much to learn from CEO Excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 8, 2011

Engineering, design, materials, and service just got better. What’s the impact on organizations like Symantec (virus), Gartner/Forrester (advisory), HP (printing), and Microsoft (operating systems)? When I was growing up, cars broke down frequently — there were repair shops all over the place fixing almost every part on a car.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to. You may recall the commercial " Is it live, or is it Memorex?

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Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Much like the astronauts of Apollo 13, they showed grace and calm under pressure, maintained their discipline, drew on their training and supported each other to get through a crisis. Accept Help:   The rescue operation appears to have been a model of private and public sector cooperation and coordination. They didn’t.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Blog Open-book 184

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. Programs like the U.S. About the Author.

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Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 319

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

However, we believe that there is a plausible alternative, because there are clear solutions that — under proper management — can narrow the affordable housing gap substantially by 2025. In our research , we identify four “levers” to manage affordable ho.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In August, 2009, the improper installation of an all-weather floor mat from an SUV into a loaner Lexus sedan by a dealer led to the vehicle's accelerator getting stuck, causing a tragic, fatal accident and launching the most challenging crisis in Toyota's history. Toyota's name was dragged through the mud for over a year, $1.5

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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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. 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. Guest post by Mark Graban. But, it really mattered to me.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. I am grateful for the people who served in that crisis. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 364

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). When a crisis strikes, in business or in government, the flow and speed of information go way up, and now more than ever.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” When a data breach happens, there is nothing worse than trying to figure out how to manage the crisis on the fly as it is still happening. Even a rumor of a breach can trigger a communications crisis. Senior engineers in the company respond to the forums by denying the hacking claims. A news cycle begins.

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Planning Company Crisis Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your support and engineering team are tired of the same issues showing up again and again.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

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Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers estimates that annually between a third and a half of all food produced is wasted worldwide. This strategy can also help retailers manage competitive and strategic challenges by strengthening retail partnerships with food suppliers and connecting with customers’ needs and wants in new ways. #1.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Each locates interdisciplinary innovation labs within or near hospital environments; involves diverse stakeholders beyond clinicians (designers, engineers, business professionals, and patients) early in the innovation process ; and engages end users in customizing solutions for their own needs. Insight Center. Challenges.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Managing complexity has always been part of the leader's job — be it sorting out the variables involved in strategic decisions , orchestrating the interaction of different functions , or responding to unanticipated events. But today, coping with complexity is an even bigger part of the manager's responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

Nevertheless, companies that live and die on operational excellence — such as Amazon.com, FedEx, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart — must continually improve their key processes. Make the role permanent and incorporate it into overall performance management. So what conditions give process owners the best chance of success?

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Process Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Magazine profiles of very successful companies are endeavors of dubious value; they often manage to catch an organization just as it peaks and heads into decline, and the strengths they describe soon start looking more like liabilities. At the time Nokia was riding high, and my charge was to explain why that was so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

As well as helping me understand how hard it is to run an organization, they show me how they are managing to adapt — or not — to changing organizational structures. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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