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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2012

This report looks at the success of paper-elimination projects, where and why paper is still leaking into the business, the features and success of scanning and capture investments, forward plans for Document Process Outsourcing (DPO), and the potential impact of mobile devices. appeared first on StrategyDriven.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 20, 2010

We get why organizations make these kinds of “staffing” moves – outsourcing supply teaching to experienced teachers is easy just as, in the corporate world, bringing in “interim” executives to fill key strategic executive gaps is easy. In my experience, this is far from the truth. Interesting times ahead my friends. Happy leading!

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Outsourcing Short-term Blog Godin 28

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

We outsource our thinking. In Think for Yourself , Harvard University lecturer Vikram Mansharamani cautions that “by outsourcing our focus to them, we willfully let them take control over our field of vision, blind to what they leave out.” Economist Noreena Hertz said in a 2010 TED Talk : We’ve become addicted to experts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But it’s been decades since that was a reliable path, and not just because of layoffs or outsourcing or robots. In my book Reinventing You , I profiled a management consultant named Joanne Chang who reinvented herself into a successful career as a chef. We all know the old script: join a company, work hard, move up the ladder.

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Career Company Mentor Consultative 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

The top panel here shows that the share of job postings requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher rose by more than 10 percentage points during the recession (from 2007 to 2010) and then fell as labor markets recovered (from 2010 through 2014). That share jumped to 35% in 2010 has since fallen to just 12% as of 2017.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2013

Reinventing Employee Onboarding (Sloan Management Review). When a business process outsourcing firm in India tested both models, employees were more than 32% less likely to quit their jobs during the first six months at the company if they received identity-focused onboarding. IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU. We are not a supermarket.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, the U.N. Outsourcing Gets Personal (Harpers). estimates, some $1.5 trillion in bribes wiped out more than 5% of global GDP. And by 2015, this Foreign Affairs article predicts, the total value of goods lost to counterfeiting and piracy will balloon from 2008's $650 billion to $1.77 economy could add as many as 2.1

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

If they can get that value — or most of it — from contingency workers, outsourcing, automation, innovative processes or capital investment, why wouldn''t they? The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Job growth has slowed significantly in the financial- and business-services sectors due to technology-driven service industrialization (automation, outsourcing, off-shoring, process re-engineering, and self-service).

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Retail Outsourcing Technology Education 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Our soon ending year, 2010, has been fascinating. I've also had the chance to experience the world of venture capital investing through the small fund that our team in Singapore manages on behalf of the Singapore government. Big companies began to attempt to manage innovation in a systematic way.

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Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Gilbert 15

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? If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

With scarcely any help from management, knowledge workers can increase their productivity by 20%. Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers. HP, on the other hand has lost 35% of its value since its new CEO and over 70% since 2010 — over $90 billion of value from its peak.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 16

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. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3 million workers, at U.S. Loss of Confidence in the U.S.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 8, 2021

The following post is provided courtesy of Human Capital Concepts (HCC), a Certified Professional Employment Organization that partners with employers to manage employee-related responsibilities and risks. Most of these tasks revolve around employee management. HRO stands for “Human Resources Outsourcing.” PEO Group Insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). In a near-miraculous feat of management, those consultants were partnered with technologists and successfully integrated into the company.

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Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If your company uses digital networks to manage supply chains, customer relationships, internal communications, financials and/or sensitive information that might interest Chinese or Iranian cyberwarriors, then a risk assessment re-think is paramount. If you're outsourcing Web 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. Now that game is over.

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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. “But more engineers is a good thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Manufacturing used to be highly vertically integrated in the U.S. For example, Apple works with at least 200 suppliers and 242 smelters and refineries across the world. We wanted to find out.

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