Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the word “virtual&# became associated with outsourcing jobs to other countries, so Jack changed the name of his program to “dynamic organization&# and implemented the program at US Cellular.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Key activities can be categorized as: Production, Problem Solving, Platform/network) Key Partnerships – Some activities are outsourced and some resources are acquired outside the enterprise. (It John Sullivan FORA.tv

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Apple used 49,400 employees to generate revenues of $65 billion in 2010. Its outsourcing partner, Chinese Foxconn , employed nearly a million people for $59 billion in the same year. Apple focuses on creating high-paying jobs while it outsources the low-paying ones to Asia. In the U.S., That a U.S. engineer with a Ph.D.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Here is the background: I have been talking about the “people problems&# because of outsourcing for a while. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Thanks to Kenzi Sugihara at Select Books , at this end of this post you will see a link to download the full version of the book for FREE.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

At the 2010 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum in New Delhi we facilitated a workshop entitled "Innovating More with Less for More" where C-level execs shared best practices which their companies have adopted to enable inclusive growth in India. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the CEO and founder of Blood Orange Media.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

Consider some of these numbers: In 2010, Ericsson set the bar for much of the subsequent IoT hype by predicting there would be 50 billion internet-connected devices by 2020. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? Business people will recognize this as a growing challenge in our interconnected economy. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The year 2010 was the first in the new century that truly revealed the crisp lines of the defining dynamic of our time — the contest for the role of global hegemon between China and the US. There is a strong antagonism toward big corporations and the outsourcing of jobs overseas, as Gen Yers worry about their future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If you're outsourcing Web 2.0 Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments? If cyberattacks become more innovative or intense, the West may well see the emergence of a "military, post-industrial complex" to protect and assert its interests.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs.

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