It will require re-engineering corporate culture.
There is no question that you will be in trouble if you get caught engineering a corporate fraud.
After buying precision engineering and corporate services interests in the US recently, the director-controlled company is offering to buy out losing minority investors at the issue price four years ago.
"We are having an ongoing conversation with Yahoo," he told me, and he says that has been with senior people both in engineering and corporate.
The SaaS security solution co-founded by previous HP principle scientist Nat Kausik and CTO Anurag Kahol (formerly Juniper Networks Director of Engineering) provides corporate IT with services, including cloud app security, mobile security and cloud access control.
Others reckon that livening up CVRD's engineering-led corporate culture will be a hard slog.The CSN-led group might well speed things up by selling non-core businesses such as aluminium and cellulose.
The re-engineering of corporate Japan is unlikely to follow an American blueprint.One day, when attitudes change, communications charges come down and the appropriate groupware exists, Japanese firms will begin to automate the twin pillars of their own particular brand of management.
Naturally, wearing my economic editor's hat, I can be sad that there hasn't been more explicit debate on the wealth-creating imperatives of boosting lacklustre productivity, reducing record personal debts and re-engineering our corporate sector to cope with the Ubers and the indomitable new sharing economy.
Planet Green relishes detail, be it recycling methods, pollution counts or solar power engineering, but its corporate sponsors keep their messages opaque.
(What next? Ford merging with General Motors?) All in all, I agree with Alan Murray, the editor of Fortune, who wrote, "Unless you are an investment banker, it's hard to feel good about the deal," and described it as yet another example of Wall Street "corporate engineering" at work.
