15 December 2015 - Engineering and Management News

25 Best Companies to Work for in 2016

3 Steps to Increase Employee Engagement - AMA Playbook

How to Lead a Caring Company Culture

Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive

The Increasing Importance of the Corporate Purchasing- and Supply Chain Management Function

Inspiring loyalty in your workforce

Management MUST Manage Suggestion Systems

How Accounting Can Help Build a Sustainable Economy (HBR)

9 skills CFOs will need to be successful in the future

8 Tips to Writing a Strategic Plan That Works

Configuration Management: Deviations and Change Requests

How Entrepreneurs Can Ride 'The Internet of Things' to Success

From Supply Chain Risk to Resilience: The How and the Why

Five Gadgets to Get Your Grandparents This Christmas

iPhone 7: Everything we know so far about Apple's biggest 2016 product

The Infinity is a tablet kids can take apart right down to the motherboard

How To Transform IoT Data to Knowledge

Mobile Cloud Computing and its Critical Role in Data Management

OpenAI will address “lack of fundamental progress” in area of artificial intelligence: Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka - The Economic Times

Boost for 'Make in India': HAL's 25 kN aero engine completes inaugural run; can be used for trainer aircraft - The Economic Times

Scientists shed light on how our brains see the world

Evelyn Witkin and the Road to DNA Enlightenment

Using Big Data to Make Wiser Medical Decisions

Scientists Study Whether Hyperthermia Treatment Makes Chemo More Effective

Study shows brain ‘reorganises’ itself when low on coffee

The New $7M Xprize Focuses On Mapping The World’s Oceans

Explainer: What is cognitive behaviour therapy?

http://paper.li/knoltweet/1317266000  Edited by Narayana Rao K.V.S.S.

Open Research Conference - Auckland - February 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/


Promoting and publishing open research is the topic of discussion in this conference.
6-7 February.

Day 1 Discussion

https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/day-1

Day 2
https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/day-2

3 New Skills in 10 Skills Prescribed for Leaders during 2013

Jill Geisler prescribed 10 skills for leaders for 2013

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/what-great-bosses-know/196814/10-key-skills-todays-leaders-need-to-succeed-in-2013/

I feel three of them are new and may have to learned or deepened by leaders.


Emotional intelligence: There is lot of advocacy for it and more people know about it and expect it from leaders.

Collaboration: Globalized interaction demands more collaboration with distant people.

Making values viral: Values are not real popular concepts in business. But there is emphasis now on values and ethics apart from policies. Managers have to define value and ethics first and then have to make efforts to make them popular among their associates

Closing a Sales Call - Some more suggestions

By Steve W. Martin, Faculty sales strategy at the USC Marshall School of Business. His latest book: Heavy Hitter Sales Psychology: How to Penetrate the C-level Executive Suite and Convince Company Leaders to Buy.

Blog post on HBR Blogs 14.12.2011

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/how_to_close_a_sales_call.html

Roald Amundsen's expedition to South Pole - Leadership Lesson

Blog post by Kishore Sengupta and Ludo Van der Heyden, professors at INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in France and Singapore onHBR blogs


http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/the_leadership_lessons_of_the.html

Tips for Managing Milennials

The millennials are employees born between 1980 and 2000, or 1981 and 1999, depending on the author.


Tips for managing them based on their traits.

http://humanresources.about.com/od/managementtips/a/millenials.htm

Collaborative Consumption - on the Rise

Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers examined the rise of this new cultural and economic phenomenon in a new book, What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (HarperBusiness/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010).




http://www.amanet.org/training/articles/Motto-for-the-21st-Century-Whats-Mine-Is-Yours.aspx