N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. When patterns are expected Doom Loops become embedded, and they asphyxiate progress.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Financing for any startup is difficult enough to secure. The defense industry is changing in the United States of America. Funding for defense projects is even harder.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

This job creation spans multiple skill levels, from high-tech engineering positions to local installation jobs, broadening the economic benefits. Moreover, these jobs are typically well-paying and contribute to local economies, promoting overall economic growth.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company will be hiring engineers, graduates, HR and IT professionals, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as a team of customer service personnel that will look after the deliveries. Amazon is also giving out 700 apprenticeships in the IT engineering, fashion buying and digital marketing departments.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. The event was a success, as the participants had a great time learning from each other and building networks professionally. Learn more here.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

The trick is to combine the financing model and the development calendar. In a linear process, different experts participate in various parts of the project, passing the baton to the next phase and to the team of experts. Since start-ups are high-risk on their own, we suggest you avoid all possible dangers whenever you can.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company will be hiring engineers, graduates, HR and IT professionals, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as a team of customer service personnel that will look after the deliveries. Amazon is also giving out 700 apprenticeships in the IT engineering, fashion buying and digital marketing departments.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

The issue is particularly pronounced in male-dominated fields such as finance, technology and engineering. After participating in women’s leadership training programs, attendees report increased confidence, a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses and a greater sense of belonging in the workplace.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The most “class-ridden” roles included CEOs, finance managers, management consultants, and solicitors. By contrast, professions in engineering, journalism, and science tended to be more egalitarian and have a smaller pay gap.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We are grateful for the continued support and active participation of our members and look forward to another year of growth for CMI Sri Lanka! CMI bolsters its presence in Australia Last month, CMI participated in The PIE Live event in Gold Coast, Australia, alongside leaders in international education. Read it here.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Investigate those doing what you want to do. Their advice can be invaluable. Research prospects and contacts. Be willing to be scattered.

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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

JULY 23, 2013

To explain, let me share a quick example, in two acts: In Act One, the manager of a corporate engineering group was tasked with reducing the cost of common materials used by a number of different product teams. Added to the difficulty of organizing the meeting is the fear that key participants will refuse to attend.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

The explosion of salaries on Wall Street has attracted many of the talented individuals who otherwise would have gone into research, design, and engineering occupations. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

In our view, sales is a complex and multi-step process, and the fact that a salesperson may not participate in one of these steps shouldn't change the basic perception of his role in the value chain. coordinates a global sales team of more than a dozen of the company's employees, including product specialists, engineers, and finance people.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2011

A trader need not really understand the financial engineering models that he may use on daily basis. Any system that involves human behavior, like economics or finance, is inherently self-referential. We are all participants in, not just observers of, these systems.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. Taking steps to participate in these types of programs can help small business compete in competitive markets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

When a meeting becomes a source of power, being in charge or included as a participant affords you disproportionate degrees of influence and status. 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

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Who authors the destiny of nations? Whose rights are sacrosanct?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

In venture capital-financed, high-growth technology startups, only 9% of entrepreneurs are women. Of course, VC-financed tech startups are different from the general workforce. Tech startups imply a science and engineering focus, two fields that are known to be less popular with women. That’s really low.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Participation in many temporary teams. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding. A second impediment is the increasing diffusion of employees' attention, skills, and knowledge across multiple teams at a time.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. But it is impossible for the majority of participants in the market to call the date when it blows.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives. People in finance at GE, typically focused on return on investment and payback periods, love FastWorks because they get a better throughput of ideas. They have branded it “FastWorks.” Partnering: getting ideas from start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Earnings guidance attracts investors focused on the short-term, and tempts executives to engineer quarterly earnings to meet the expectations that they have issued. Integrated guidance that intends to inform market participants about future changes in the value of these capitals can further improve the information environment of the firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

"You can work hard to showcase you're an expert in a certain area but participate in other conversations too," says Clark. For example, if you're in sales, you are likely to have a depth of knowledge in that area, but you can also show that you know something about marketing or finance. Establish a presence.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

For example, TopCoder develops software for its corporate clients, a task traditionally assigned to a team of engineers, by dividing the work into small modules and farming those out to its global community, which has more than 300,000 members. We predict that hyperspecialization, a niche phenomenon today, will over time become mainstream.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. The magic building blocks that Airbnb adds are tools for matching, spot pricing, and analyzing the data it collects on all participants in its ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Having senior leaders participate in pricing discussions is a must. They do all their research and innovation in one building, and all the functions – finance, marketing, engineering – they either come from their offices to that building, or they are already physically located there. What are they doing differently?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Few in this discussion saw much opportunity in solar power's engineered equipment. Meanwhile, as targets are set to expand the installed capacity for solar electricity, many foresaw real difficulty in attracting capital to finance the projects that would yield those extra gigawatts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The survey shows 40% of study participants prefer a salesperson who listens, understands, and then matches their solution to solve a specific problem. From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. 2: It’s Really a Committee of One.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our audacious challenge was followed by a spirited effort, in a series of HBR blog posts by experts in design, energy, finance and urban planning, to answer the following questions: How can organic, self-built slums be turned into livable housing? How can world-class engineering and design capabilities be utilized to solve the problem?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

That''s because: Shareholders can expect to participate only in the growth of the enterprises they are investing in. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises. Compensation Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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