McKinsey

JANUARY 10, 2017

The CIO of ING Bank discusses the importance of top engineering talent and agile ways of working when it comes to digitizing products and processes. Our insights

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2017

When TV first was adopted, it was a magical gift. The shows united our culture and the ads fueled a seemingly endless consumer boom. Today, though, marketers have turned television into an instrument of dissatisfaction.

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Strategy+Business

MAY 25, 2016

E-tailers create sponsored ads in a bid to attract online consumers, but lower-cost improvements to search placement can be more profitable

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world. Innovation Design Product development Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing Sponsor Content

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers, mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t. Consider, for example, the ideal attributes of a civil engineer building an interstate bridge near your home. Do you picture a risk-tolerant engineer who is highly comfortable with uncertainty, or one who tends to prefer mathematical certainly? Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 3, 2016

The most direct way to get a jet to fly is to add bigger engines. That's certainly one way to get through a thorny problem. And the easiest way to gain attention is to run more ads, or yell more loudly. Horsepower is an expensive but often effective solution.

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McKinsey

MAY 16, 2018

You don’t have to look far to finance your growth ambitions. Marketing & Sales Insights

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

Engineering is the most male-dominated field in STEM. with women making up only 13% of the engineering workforce. For decades, to attract more women to the field, engineering educators have focused on curriculum reform (e.g., Why men and women enter engineering.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Engineer builds things that work. The engineer builds it out. Engineers shouldn't make stuff up. A career is often based on one of these three stances: The Scientist does experiments. Sometimes they work, sometimes they fail. She takes good notes. Comes up with a theory.

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McKinsey

JANUARY 22, 2018

Can software vendors and other companies identify more opportunities to grow and deliver value by taking a fresh look at customer success? Our Insights

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McKinsey

JANUARY 4, 2018

What opportunities does AI open up for mobility, and how can OEMs capture them in the short and long run? Our Insights

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MishTalk

MAY 17, 2016

Four ex-Google engineers, including the man who built Google’s first self-driving … Continue reading → EconomicsMovement in the autonomous vehicle space accelerated once again.

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McKinsey

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Lessons from the expansion of the Panama Canal. Our Insights

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Just how common are the views on gender espoused in the memo that former Google engineer James Damore was recently fired for distributing on an internal company message board? Research we’ve conducted shows that while most people don’t share Damore’s views, male engineers are more likely to. ” Students are taught engineering purity, Cech found , so their commitment to public welfare declines significantly over the course of their engineering education.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. “Build real recommendation engines fast” is my mission-critical recommendation to companies aspiring — or struggling — to creatively cross the digital divide. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

When an aircraft manufacturer decides to create a new model, it doesn’t ask pilots and crew to identify the best cabin, wings, jet engines, and other parts, and then put all the pieces together. It is the realm of systems engineering, a field that has contributed to jaw-dropping achievements, such as sending a spacecraft on a nine-year voyage to Pluto and designing a nuclear submarine.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These stories are consistent with a growing body of research on search engine bias. ” In other words, the researchers showed that image search engines exaggerate gender stereotypes concerning professions. In a project with my colleagues from the University of Sheffield’s Information School, Jo Bates and Paul Clough, we have been conducting experiments to gauge whether image search engines perpetuate more generalized gender stereotypes.

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Strategy+Business

AUGUST 15, 2014

As demand for ambulatory care grows, providers can unlock access using existing resources. But they''ll need to redesign the way they operate--by putting the patient in the middle

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

In the past decade, consumers have shifted from worrying about sharing personal financial information when shopping on the internet to embracing online retailers’ recommendations for them.

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McKinsey

MARCH 6, 2017

R&D leaders can boost productivity by using advanced analytics to create stronger, faster engineering teams. Our Insights

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MishTalk

JULY 5, 2017

The headline is not quite accurate, nor is the notion we are on the verge of the end of the internal combustion engine. SupplyChain24 says Volvo First Major Car Manufacturer to Go All Electric. This is a step in that direction, but let’s separate the hype from the reality. more…). Economics

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2016

Fed Balance Sheet vs. S&P 500 I was playing around with some ideas on the St Louis Fed "Fred" database and came up with this. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 12, 2009

Engineers as Rock Stars. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Who cant love this ad? Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:37 AM. Related Posts. 1 comment: Cory. that was great =). August 12, 2009 at 11:04 AM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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McKinsey

MARCH 14, 2017

Full intelligent process automation comprises five key technologies. Here’s how to use them to enhance productivity and efficiency, reduce operational risks, and improve customer experiences. Our Insights

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Consulting Business

MAY 16, 2013

Search for: 10X Business Growth: How an Engineer Turned Consultant Uses Marketing Automation. Steve took an engineering consulting firm from $250,000 to $3.1 Steve, let’s start off and talk a bit more about your previous job at that engineering consulting firm. The “Engineering Consulting” firm was “nick miller inc” a surveying company in Palm Beach Gardens Florida that later changed their name to “global Minds” Free Consultants Toolkit!

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

When I joined Instagram in 2015 as head of engineering, the company had been part of Facebook for three years. It had 115 engineers, but we would soon scale to 300, and later grow to over 400 in 2017. The engineering department needed better organization and management, and its employees were craving more career development. Andy Crawford/Getty Images. It was not an easy task, but I had a powerful weapon in mind from the start: reorganization.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Sanctions or not, NASA uses Russian-made engines to propel rockets. Yesterday, just seconds after takeoff, a NASA Antares rocket with a Russian-made engine exploded on takeoff. The Russian maker of the engine used in the unmanned US supply rocket that exploded after liftoff in Virginia denied on Wednesday that its product was at fault for the catastrophe. In essence, the AJ-26 engine is undergoing flight tests,” it said.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Capital Investment Financial Engineering In a press release Wal-Mart announced " Capital investments will be approximately $11.0 Wolf Richter took Wal-Mart to task for that statement in his appraisal The Chilling Thing Wal-Mart Said about Financial Engineering. It has been the most successful method of financial engineering. In this era, once financial engineering fails to prop up stock prices, all bets are off.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The following guest post by Culpepper first appeared on Tumblr as How Chicago has used financial engineering to paper over its massive budget gap.

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McKinsey

APRIL 28, 2017

R&D leaders can boost productivity by using advanced analytics to create stronger, faster engineering teams. Our Insights

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Smart Debt Engineering The markets are giddy today over a Plan to End Debt Standoff released yesterday by Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis.

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Leading Results Rambings

JUNE 22, 2013

A core change of search engine optimization techniques between today and just a few years ago are the referred to “Panda” and “Penguin”- Apparently because no understanding of Google is complete without a trip to the zoo? This was a conventional technique for the traditional Search Engine Optimization companies that delivered outstanding bang for the buck. At one point, it was true that the best search engine optimized sites were not on those platforms.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

On February 19 former Uber employee Susan Fowler wrote an explosive blog post describing her time as an engineer at Uber. And it’s important to note that it isn’t only Uber that (allegedly) has a problem retaining and supporting female engineers. While some of the details described by Fowler sound extreme, many female engineers have reported that hostile work environments are still unfortunately common.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Consultants who are easily offended

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Deltek

JUNE 7, 2016

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Deltek

JUNE 7, 2016

The Deltek Clarity A&E report highlights the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) A&E firms need to be tracking and details historical trends. Benchmark and set realistic goals for your firm

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Joellyn Sargent

JANUARY 4, 2012

As you roll out your new site, be sure that: If you redesigned an existing site, any pages that have been moved need to have 301 redirects set up so search engines will know where they went. “Help, I built a website and no one came!”

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McKinsey

MAY 25, 2016

This report offers an overview of stress testing as a management and regulatory tool in banking. The report suggests ways that banks can use stress tests and their component parts to connect strategic thinking at Baord and senior management level to meaningful actions across their organizations. It offers a five-step program for achieving greater positive impact from stress testing, including modeling P&L and liquidity impacts and using scenarios more effectively. Our Insights

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Deltek

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This is the seventh post in Deltek’s A&E marketing and business development blog series. Expert David Stone, founder and President of Stone and Company, talks about the importance of differentiating your firm from the rest

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Joellyn Sargent

JULY 8, 2010

You don’t have to be an expert in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to have a search friendly website. Here are ten simple ways to make sure your site is properly indexed for search engines. 2) Every page is different - whether you have 5 pages on your site or 500, search engines expect each page to be unique. Search engines place more value on the first words in the title. Google and other search engines index images and display them in search results.

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