HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

The Core team being affected by the Google layoffs includes engineers who handle the foundation of the company’s flagship products, oversee user safety online, and maintain the company’s global IT infrastructure. At least 50 of these positions included engineering positions from the company’s Sunnyvale California offices.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) Paul assisted me particularly as I entered new territory in restructuring, and maintaining the focus on getting the balance right between the present and future business.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think big.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14