Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. Today, the authors answered these questions: How has the coronavirus pandemic challenged businesses’ operating principles? What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models? And even change management is changing as well.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 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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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

Given those numbers, it’s easy to forget the strength of the job market previous to the crisis. Second, the tech sector as a whole has been remarkably steady since the onset of the crisis. The COVID-19 outbreak significantly reshaped the U.S. Highly in-demand positions pre-COVID-19 spanned industries. Down just 2.6

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace. Some examples include the Black Employee Network (BEN), Amazon Women in Engineering (AWE), and Indigenous@.

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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 86

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

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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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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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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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. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it?

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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 can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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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. “Enjoy, learn, unlearn and reframe and, as always, if you need even more details, reach out and enquire.” Listen to their discussion here !

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

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. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

In several cases, I noted how problems arose not simply because team members disagreed on a particular point or issue, but because they were operating from different perspectives of what they should be expected to do, and what they saw as being their team mates’ responsibility to address.

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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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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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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. About the Author.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Policy Operations management Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure' 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.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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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.

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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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 customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

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. Free food magazines that supermarkets such as the Co-operative in UK use to share food stories can also feature waste reduction tips and recipes to utilize leftovers. Tara Moore/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. How did they, and how can they, make decisions about entering or leaving these markets, knowing it is never certain when a political, financial, or diplomatic crisis will happen?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. In our work with dozens of large companies on growth and transformation strategies, we’ve found a set of principles and practices that create an operating system for growth. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

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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 9

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. For example, at Toyota, chief engineers direct the efforts of about 10 major functional departments. They can do it in the following ways.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The financial crisis has made them well aware that businesses are globally intertwined. In the wake of its recalls , Toyota found that its highly centralized, engineering-centric communication structure slowed down its ability to understand early warning signals about quality.

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