Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

While the first 787 was originally scheduled to be delivered back in 2008, a string of delays and cost overruns meant that deliveries didn't start until 2011. Boeing undertook one of the most extensive outsourcing campaigns that it has ever attempted in its history. It's easy to blame the outsourcing. At least not yet.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too. The smart building router was the first product developed by the team in Bangalore first for the Indian market but is now available globally.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Indeed, as one commentator put it, the guest list at this summit meeting represented "a who's who of outsourcing American jobs.". But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs. Big Business is not a major job creator.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. Look at their activity in professional development and business education. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don't have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing quite well exporting services like software development, technical support, and back-office processing to America. Retaining R&D.

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