N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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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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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?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. ” The assumption is that massive finance salaries are luring graduates who would otherwise be making important scientific discoveries and leaving meaningful marks on society. more likely to enter finance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. As the head of the U.S.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

We are considering offering something like the following on a monthly basis: Review trends of your specific keywords Identify potential hotspots for blog links Update Facebook Fans page = 25-50 postings Identify and connect with potential Facebook friends Update Twitter account = 30-50 Search Engine Optimized postings Leave comments on blogs and websites (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S. based companies. America’s problem?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Along some important dimensions, the state is clearly playing a major enabling role. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

These are important questions for employers, workers, and policy makers. My coauthor and I set out to find some answers, particularly for science and engineering. scientists and engineers with undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral degrees in science and engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Advances in manufacturing technology. All this adds up to an unprecedented level of uncertainty about trade policies and their effect. Such a policy alone could have a major impact on companies operating in the United States. Manufacturing is on the cusp of a robotics revolution. presidential election. Take the idea of a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Better meeting techniques , like distributing agendas, holding meetings standing up, or enforcing a “no device policy,” are all well-intentioned practices. For example, if a meeting charter has significant implications for finance, one person from finance can attend and keep their finance colleagues informed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. in the most radical technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

The primary tool of China’s industrial policy is subsidies to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for key industries such as robotics, advanced computers, and electric vehicles. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. The labor force adjusted to a new technology replacing an older one. It would seem that this provides a profitable opportunity for companies that are able to be flexible in their compensation policy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

economy has tremendous innovative capacity, even in the depths of the current recession, this means neither that policies to encourage high-value innovation are not possible nor that we should ignore the danger of significantly damaging this capacity. Though the U.S. Here are the dangers. This is what the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2011

In engineering, it usually leads to fatalities and recalls, because in the real world, the worst case does happen. From engineering to finance, if risks are communicated very well, lesser accidents and crises will happen, simply on the strength that people will plan better.

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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. 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. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The reports outline six policy recommendations, including new legislation to define consumer rights regarding how online activity data is gathered and used. One prototype enables a patient to use her data to understand the exact dollar amount her policy will cover for a specific procedure. Developing personalized choice engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

They published papers through big labor think tank Economic Policy Institute that support its arguments against immigration reform and the expansion of H-1B visas for foreign workers. The comment boards of articles about immigration are often filled with heart-wrenching stories of American engineers who can''t find employment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. At the regulatory and policy levels, authorities have doggedly pursued U.S. Reforming immigration policies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Indian CEOs and policy-makers inject this word into practically every sentence they utter. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. With foreign technology companies doing mostly of the trading in Africa, combined with a porous IPR system in the region, tech startups have limited opportunities for acquisition. A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We administration, policies, and compliance (which can be a brake on changes in processes).

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