Many execs would like to think they can run a business like engineering a bridge.
But one of the participating schools, University of Cincinnati, will offer a course called Innovation and Design Thinking, which a student could use toward a degree in business or engineering.
Now, however, as these companies face a clear need to file more and file faster, they are additionally hard-pressed because they commonly rely on key business and engineering personnel to manage the patent process.
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She jumps from design to business development, engineering to recruiting, all within a given day.
Its plant business carries out engineering works for chemical equipment, power equipment and others.
The offshore and engineering business builds floating units, fixed platforms, pipelines facilities and offshore installations.
The BBC understands that 20 local investors have bought the Border Precision Engineering business out of administration.
Their chief engineer was William Douglass, part of the Douglass family who were legends in the lighthouse-engineering business.
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Mr Nakanishi decided to return Hitachi to its core business: heavy engineering.
Every company in the printer business counts on engineering and product development to deliver products that will provide a growth avenue.
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That is what I face everyday in our software engineering business.
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In addition to its vessels, Scott Trawlers runs a fleet of refrigerated lorries and a marine engineering business, catering for the manufacturing needs of scallop fishermen.
All it has to do is hint maybe, probably that there could be a breakup and all eyes turn away from its pipeline and base business to financial engineering.
Doble (now a subsidiary of ESCO Technologies) is probably one of the least publicly recognized companies in the power engineering business, which is surprising given their longevity and global reach.
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Now , with venture capital flows declining overall, cooler heads in the Valley are shifting bets to more business-oriented engineering and research-intensive fields more grounded in marketplace realities.
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The programme aims to send 200 students a year to take a year-long master's degree at Tsinghua - in subjects including public policy, international relations, economics and business, and engineering - from 2016.
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The school will specialise in engineering and business diplomas as well as GCSEs.
Still, Ted Scardamalia, director of product analysis at research firm Portelligent, says standardizing is more a business consideration than an engineering puzzle.
For a high school student, there might not always be an available choice between pursuit of a business degree and an engineering degree.
Boeing executives also dismissed the possibility of slowdowns in other business lines due to engineering talent and resources getting diverted to fixing the Dreamliner.
The CIO came into existence with ERP and business process re-engineering.
John Chuang, who received engineering and business degrees in the U.K. before moving to the U.S. for six years, had his own ideas about selling chocolate.
During the late 1980s into the 1990s, business innovation was often driven by top-down initiatives for the sake of business process re-engineering and enterprise resource planning software.
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There will also be new teaching and research facilities for the university's engineering, business and economics, maths, and computer science departments as well as student residential accommodation.
Others came more recently, to study business and science and engineering, but as soon as they get their degree, we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else.
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David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
Scrum is not just a set of tools, or a new business process, or an engineering framework for software development.
They need to embrace a new method of doing business that looks more like engineering or consulting than the law they grew up with.
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Another fad that registers less with managers is business-process re-engineering.
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