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MAY 31, 2022
I will be doing a training exercise in a few weeks where I’ll command an incident simulating a multiple-casualty situation after a major earthquake. That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. The entry-level engineer seeks to become a more advanced engineer.
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.
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Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2018
Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers. Today, there’s a greater need for software engineers because cars are computers more than anything else.” Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
However, Hayek didn’t push training on them. After making numerous changes in the way the company was led (including shifting from an engineer-driven to a professionally managed organization and replacing some members of the top team), Hall learned after his first six months on the job not to run roughshod over his direct reports.
Harvard Business
JULY 9, 2018
One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. A brilliant engineer we know had been promoted three times in four years, and by the time he was nearly 30 he was a group president at a U.S. Before any coaching can be effective, they need to wake up to the ways their actions affect others.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2016
A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles. But what surprised us was that few of them had ever been trained or coached on how to deal with them.
Harvard Business
MAY 18, 2017
I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.
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