Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You are team leader on a cross-functional team project that includes; Sue from finance, Jack from engineering, Brian from Quality Assurance, Stephanie from human resources, Terri is the customer representative, Tony from production and Mike (me) is the team coach…. Ferdinand Fournies. Solution(s). Stop the madness!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Can we ever admit we are fried, exhausted, done, and not be judged as lacking in mojo, courage, stamina? 2 Comments 1 Jen Gresham December 13th, 2010 at 12:00 pm Interesting post.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

Here’s a tip: learn about search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and use of keywords. Get started by contributing content to sites that utilize freelance writers. Some will take unsolicited articles, many will give assignments to freelancers.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

Your company’s ability to dominate your chosen keyword or key phrase will make the difference in terms of your business success. Mine are: minority-owned woman-owned web design ( search in Google ) a successful woman ( search in Google ) woman of color business blog ( search in Google ) How are we doing?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

As a result, a limited number of people have full, end-to-end accountability for business success — and there are few opportunities for managers to learn all aspects of a business. If successful, they then were given responsibility for increasingly larger businesses. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Among the many interviews conducted in researching the book, it wasn't at all rare to hear of successful professionals who woke up at 4:30 a.m. There's a sense that a woman is just working until she gets married, [that] she is not a long-term resource," said one senior finance professional. We do all of them.".

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) How do you best focus the time and resources you have? What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need. 5% response is success!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P. The analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization. The opportunity to demonstrate the value of this new approach came from an unexpected source.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success. For example, HR can work with marketing for guidance on search engine optimization (SEO), a skill that can help HR improve its recruitment efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

These criteria assume a limited supply of financial capital and that prudent allocation of financial capital determines a firm’s success. Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Humorous because, as a Human Resources practitioner, I hear similar calls for change within my profession. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Every other function of the organization is as out of touch as IT.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

And then we found Alibaba — and it found us — and that connection led to the partnership that ultimately proved to be remarkably successful. This success was built on what we learned from our prior efforts, as well as a resolve to take new risks to do what was necessary to succeed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. Finance departments also had trouble dealing with the fact that the cost of services and the resulting subscription revenues can accrue in a complex manner. Human resources.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

True expertise is a rare commodity, and the successful company utilizes it on the front end, rather than on the costly back end. A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). Human resources management. Academic, research.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. Moreover, this person is successful in getting the vendor they want selected 89% of the time. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. Not surprisingly, the answer to this question differed by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

After more than 20 years of researching innovation in large companies, it’s clear to me that the successful intrapreneur is often more myth than reality. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. Partner with procurement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Your page ranking in search engines is determined by the relevancy of the content on your website. Most customers start their research on the Internet: give them ways to find you when they use a search engine. NOTE: Lead your customers forward by making your process easy to use. 4) Establish excellent incoming links.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Successfully implementing such a capability could dramatically affect headcount in human resources functions, but also in other functions, such as sales. While an internal combustion engine has thousands of parts, a Tesla electric engine contains a few dozen, each needing different engineering skills.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We think there's more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could put capitalism on a better path. DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Wellness checkups? Better working conditions?

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