HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

“The truth is, when moving abroad to work, one should never antagonize or try to revolutionize the working environment or customs of the place,” advises Joe Flanagan, Founder of 90s Fashion World. When in Rome, do as the Romans should be the operating motto to approach working in a culturally different environment.”.

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Tips Short-term Cooper Travel 122

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

Criticism is a natural part of operating in business. Credibility is essential to any business’s success, and this is particularly true for companies operating online. It is one of the best ways to get your brand noticed and ensure that you rank highly in search engines. Addressing Criticism. Gaining Credibility And Trust.

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Reputation Management Media Brand 65

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. What if I could recreate the fashion in which I already do something, but make it public in order to benefit as many people as possible?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In fact, US engineers dismissed suspension bridges as unsafe in general, much less for a railroad. So he did what visionary entrepreneurs do, got permission from the government, formed a company, and looked for someone with the technical know-how to make it happen, and that someone was an engineer named Charles Elliot Jr.

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Coaching Ourselves

AUGUST 2, 2019

Often ilk its corporate use, the fashioning of the telly was a universal exploit of many individuals who strove to get-up-and-go engineering boost. In 1907, with the procession of gain underground engineering, these electromechanical devices became hard-nosed ( The New York Multiplication ).

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Engineering Taylorism Taylor Fashion 20

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Organizations do not operate in isolation, and hence it is critical to bring key stakeholders, including suppliers, on board with any new initiative. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

I was thinking about why engineering disciplines focus so heavily on checklists? Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions. Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. Why checklists?

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Process Management Quality Tools 84

Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. What keeps you from gifting your kindness?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

A very similar logic lies behind fashion retailer Zara's choice to manufacture in Europe, also an expensive location in terms of labor costs. The much bigger issue for Apple is supplier availability, engineering changes, and flexibility.

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Engineering Bottom-up Fashion Cost 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

An interface communicates the algorithms’ results along with more-nuanced data, such as the personal notes, to the company’s fashion stylists, who then select five items from a variety of brands to send to the customer. When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Best wishes Erin.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

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Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2016

” Makers, also known as individual contributors, are the software developers, engineers, architects, writers, and researchers who produce knowledge. Managers operate at the center of a complex web of customers, external partners, and internal stakeholders. Please do not disturb.”

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Management Fashion Knowledge Management Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers.

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Airlines Media Travel Marketing 15

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

APRIL 18, 2016

It comprises a range of conceptual and analytical operations, including problem definition, signal processing, pattern recognition, abstraction and conceptualization, analysis, and prediction. Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Organizations grow in a similar fashion. What about processes that are more central to a company’s operations, such as product development, customer service, or materials purchasing? Just think of old European cities (or even Greenwich Village in New York). Of course, these are HR-related policies. You’re not a small company anymore.

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Process Committee Policies Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Yes, in our work, from engineering to herbal medicine to craft, we have seen inventions — such as a local company that remakes automobile engines into electric power generators. Despite the inventiveness of these entrepreneurs, some operate in the informal economy, without government registration, IP rights, or access to banking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

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Company Finance Real Estate Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. Next, the Growth Manager works with a cross functional team including engineering, analytics, design, marketing, and product marketing to execute the test.

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Company Management Objective Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

What happened is very well documented: they kept running down the maintenance budget, pushing their operating budget to make their numbers. It’s fashionable to put your engineers onto solving customer problems. Fifteen people killed, 170 injured – it was terrible. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” ” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content.

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Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

Old-fashioned analog controls require tuning and are expensive to manufacture. With electric power steering you draw power from the engine only when you need it, not constantly as with a belt-driven hydraulic pump. Growing Digital Business. Sponsored by Accenture. New tools and strategies. Software development will be more complex.

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Software Engineering Efficiency Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It came by great gas mileage on the back of a scam: The car’s supposedly low emissions were fraud — perpetrated by VW engineers who designed the car’s software to lower emissions during testing, only to let them bump back up in real life use. Now we know that vehicle wasn’t green.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping?

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Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

If you are an operating systems software engineer who spends even part of the day working on her great idea for a new video game, you should be collecting unemployment. Sad as it is, the operative contract today is that the company will discard you as soon as the economic forces tilt in that direction. Or discard the company.

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Project PR Career Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Exit from a platform usually requires customers to leave in a coordinated fashion. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams. This illustrates one of the strategic benefits of platforms: Once established, they are hard to dislodge.

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Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). The Fashion landscape is dominated by European firms. From engineer to call center employee, people loved being at Zappos.

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Entrepreneur Venture Funding Finance Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The leading enterprises of the world were ones that fashioned a profitable business model and leveraged it over time. Around three-quarters of Microsoft’s profits come from two extremely successful products that the company introduced in the 1980s and 1990s: the Windows operating system and Office productivity suite.

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Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. What’s the trick?

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2015

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, which helps it attract world-class engineers who share its mission. It’s become fashionable in management circles to talk about “breaking down silos” in order to improve how information flows around the enterprise. Would she fare any better?

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Groupthink Agility Diversity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

On a separate track, he launched the device and content ecosystem, starting with iPod and iTunes, that would become the company’s new growth engine. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15