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Negotium partnered with Tianjn Railway Signal Company Limited to help them identify their strengths and capabilities which they could build upon as well as barriers which were hampering productivity and performance. The organization hopes to use these findings to help achieve its strategic objectives.
China ISS Information Technology Co. Ltd. provides operations and maintenance services for highway operations. They wanted to understand how they could improve various aspects of their service delivery. Negotium helped them analyse their services and provided them advise on how to manage capacity and availability, incident resolution and service continuity for its operations.
News
Innovation and Productivity
Buffett Speak
The 2 things that make the economy better, according to Warren Buffett are Innovation and Productivity.
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Skills and Capability
Skills gap forcing recruitment changes
CEOs are more concerned about the impact of a skills shortage on their business than at any point in the last six years, according to a research by PWC
Capability Building
- Half of global executives rate capability building as a top 3 priority (Mckinsey & Co)
- More than 70% of organizations cite capabilities gaps as one of their top five challenges (Bersin By Deloitte)
- Over 10,500 CMMI appraisals have been conducted in 97 countries around the world since 2007. These organizations have identified and improved their key capabilities, defying disruptive and competitive forces as well as economic downturns to come out on top. Who Uses CMMI?
New Zealand Tech Skills Gap
NZTech ran a small survey of members last year and estimated that we will need about 10,000 new employees over the next 3 years.
How Will You Measure Your Life?
In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.
The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question "How do you measure your life?" became more urgent and poignant, and he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students.
In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity—and stay out of jail? Using lessons from some of the world's greatest businesses, he provides incredible insights into these challenging questions.
Too often, we measure success in life against the progress we make in our careers. But how can we ensure we're not straying from our values as humans along the way? Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and world-renowned innovation guru, examines the daily decisions that define our lives and encourages all of us to think about what is truly important.
How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston