Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

The average salary for a welding engineer is $48K to $101K. Technical Writing - There is a wide variety of sub-specializations which lean more toward engineering, how-to’s, or investigations. Even at a little company, there’s more random stuff than you would think (DNA, DEA, bacteria, electrical engineering, IT, etc.)

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Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

In August 2018, Apple assigned the leadership of the Titan team to Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, alongside Bob Mansfield. It is meanwhile believed internally that the dismissals from the group this week is a restructuring anticipated under every new leadership.

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Project Restructuring Automotive System 40

ReImagine Work

JUNE 9, 2016

He said, “Don’t you think we’re going to have another restructuring, if you read between the lines?” appeared first on Mary Schaefer, empowerment authority, speaker, coach & trainer for those in engineering, scientific & IT-related positions. An employee walked into my office. I had not seen it yet so I read through it.

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Motivation Restructuring Long-term CEO 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

As organizations seek to adapt to changing times, senior executives realize they can’t rely on change through simple restructuring and re-engineering. Instead, they need strong corporate cultures that support efficiency, innovation, and agility to navigate the turbulent business landscape.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2015

It mirrored his training and mindset as an engineer. When we join a reading group, we’re imposing structure on our reading habits (and possibly restructuring our social life). My friend and former coaching client Alan Mulally knew this and used his concept of organizational structure when he was CEO of Ford.

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BPR Succession Restructuring Video 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. Nissan’s experience reminds us that firms with good strategy but weak leadership can remain rudderless. We also know that firms with good leadership but weak strategy can lurch directionless.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Restructuring 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Be aware, however, that constant re-engineering, reorganization, and restructuring in pursuit of efficiency (or the latest management fad) has a questionable effect at best. The world of business is in constant transformation mode, so an adaptable company culture isn’t just nice to have, it’s necessary.

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Succession Teamwork Restructuring Commitment 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. This involved several more years and another 1,800 people, 60% of whom were union employees.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This prioritization process has to start before any new idea reaches engineering. This way, the innovations that do reach engineering will already have substantial evidence — about validated customer needs, processes, legal security, and integration issues.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

They don't like to be pigeon-holed or pushed out on a limb of specialization — with the inherent danger of a whimsical corporation sawing that limb off behind them during the next restructuring. X'ers' teen years were a time of major corporate restructuring.

Career 14

Career Restructuring Skills Uncertainty 14

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

Change can involve the adoption of new technologies, reengineering, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, culture blending, or any of a number of other forms. Success with change is less like engineering an event and more like navigating a journey. Others will resist getting in the car at all. For most people, change is a big deal.

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Hotels Stress Resistance Restructuring 124

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

The restructuring is clearly a response to Google’s stagnant share price and investor unease. Who wants to simultaneously invest in a search engine, longevity research, thermostats, and drones? It’s trying out something else entirely. That’s the challenge that Google-as-Alphabet still faces.

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Advertising Comparison Restructuring Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The "unworkable" job : a Swiss engineer told me that his boss had bolted on so many parts to his original role that it was becoming impossible to do his work as one part of his role contradicted the other. Any suggestions for pushing back or reshaping unnecessarily complex or outdated organizational structures are also welcome!

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Jobs assembled a team of brilliant engineers, gave them the needed resources, and infused the Macintosh team with a vision of what was possible. When Jobs returned and restructured his senior management team with more discovery-driven capacity, Apple's innovation engine ignited again. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Restructurings may be an inevitable part of organizational life but living through them—even when you’re one of the lucky ones still standing—is challenging and stressful. We’re going to restructure and move people around,’” Sid recalls. What steps should you take to protect your job?

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Restructuring Stress Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Coverage of Google’s restructuring has focused on the idea of Alphabet as a new kind of internet-era conglomerate. Malone is a brilliant financial engineer, who creates separate capital structures — each with a unique stock — for his different lines of business.

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Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

Intel’s restructuring announcement last week describes its plans to reduce headcount by 12,000, or 11% of its workforce, and to seek growth in markets such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Center Processing.

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Marketing Competitive Advantage Technology Restructuring 8

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. These strategies eroded GE’s competitive advantage in everything from consumer electronics and home appliances to trains and aircraft engines.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. This is not the first time, of course, that Jobs has left the helm at Apple.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. The reality is that the two don’t necessarily go together. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.”

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. The reality is that the two don’t necessarily go together. Another CEO declared that “Leadership is a contact sport.”

Workshop 14

Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Though traumatic, the restructuring of GM and Chrysler, including a major reduction in overhead, led to their resurgence since 2009. To build a business for the long haul, SpaceX wisely recognized it must embark on the complicated and risky task of developing an entirely new rocket engine. They think about the future.

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Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Think of word processors replacing typists or engineers using AutoCAD software. These patterns are consistent with a restructuring of labor demand towards these skills. Until recently, economists thought of this trend as a gradual phenomenon that didn’t depend much on the ups and downs of the economy.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

But this is usually when they have a major restructuring, which is to say when they're in trouble of some kind. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. One question that seems reasonable in light of the low ($1.75 GE-NBC/Universal.

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Due Diligence EBITDA Health Care Gordon 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

While the restructuring certainly helped GM return to profitability (its annual net income averaged $6.7 She has been with GM since 1980 when, at the age of 18, she entered General Motors Institute to get an engineering degree. billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market.

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Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Employees skeptically prepared for yet another exhausting effort to transform the company into an efficient growth engine. That was an appealing proposition but would require significant restructuring; no one's job was guaranteed. In late 2000, John W. Rowe, MD, became Aetna's fourth CEO in five years.

Health Care 14

Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

In what was clearly a “Hail Mary” pass, Elop engineered a tie-up with Microsoft that never really worked out, eventually setting the stage for the sale of the company’s entire handset business. I used a hand-drawn picture of what the model for their business would look like.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. Reverse Engineering.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

That’s the fundamental problem that prompted Microsoft to announce its big restructuring last summer — it recognized it had too many separate divisions. I tend to think of organizations as eight-cylinder engines, and in every organization you ask: “How many cylinders are actually firing?”

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CEO FAQ Restructuring Performance Review 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Take James Inglesby at Unilever, for example. Suzanne Ackerman-Berman at Pick n' Pay in South Africa is leading an innovation lab to help small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs become reliable suppliers to the retail industry.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Sentrian feeds data from biohealth sensors into IBM’s artificial intelligence engine, Watson, to identify when an intervention may prevent a hospital admission. They will fundamentally restructure the flow of money in healthcare—and create enormous medical value in the process.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Apparel Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

medical-device maker, a planned new heart defibrillator had to be scrapped after five years of expensive effort because the company's quality engineers did not meet federal requirements — due to their inadequate knowledge and skills. For instance, at one U.S. Have you ever started a club? What Internet mailing lists do you subscribe to?

Skills 14

Skills Survey Human Resources Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Imagine that you’re on a tight schedule driving an 18 wheeler and your engine light comes on when you’re 100 miles from the nearest service station. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. What to do? Product enhancements.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

I was faced with undertaking a massive restructuring and write-downs to get the unit back to a competitive position. It experimented extensively with sintering super alloys and is now moving into production on fuel injectors for its LEAP engine for the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737MAX. Our survival depended upon it.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8