Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2011

This best-practices white paper gives you insight into how you can reduce costs, increase productivity, mitigate risk and enhance business performance through the strategic outsourcing of document lifecycle management. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 2, 2011

Relationships can’t be outsourced or delegated, no matter how hard leaders try. Stratten shows you how to do that using the plethora of tools available in 2011, but also helps readers deepen their understanding of the relationships involved in/through social media.

Marketing 92

Marketing Review Books Depreciation 92

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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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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LDRLB

AUGUST 2, 2011

Relationships can’t be outsourced or delegated, no matter how hard leaders try. Stratten shows you how to do that using the plethora of tools available in 2011, but also helps readers deepen their understanding of the relationships involved in/through social media.

Marketing 60

Marketing Review Books Depreciation 60

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

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. As this type of scenario plays out, it’s not uncommon to see further profit loss causing even more outsourcing in a continued effort to “reduce” costs – creating the spiral. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. The same is true of customer profitability.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

A 2011 study from the European Commission corroborated Common Sense Advisory's findings. You can outsource a project in a matter of minutes to more than 26,000 translation companies or thousands of freelancers that make up this US$33 billion industry. If not, you should. Can you get by with English in Europe? Still not convinced?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

The ways of doing this are via a DIY approach or an outsourcing approach. Over the past four years they have gotten more than 180 million views — and in 2011 alone, sales jumped 15%. One was YouTube''s most-shared video of 2011; another garnered a million views in its first 24 hours. Blendtec.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Real incomes more than doubled between 1988 and 2011 (though the extension to 2011 is not shown in this chart), a shift that involved large swaths of people (almost a third of the world population, most of them from Asia). But coincidence in time is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Over the last decade, we have been conducting field research on how dozens of companies in a range of industries (including entertainment, software, financial services, manufacturing, retail, consulting, and business process outsourcing) orient new employees. buying an airline ticket or configuring a printer).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Do what you do best and outsource the software and community building to the experts. Instead, you’d hire someone skilled in those areas. Do yourself a favor and use the same strategy when it comes to building your own Social Nation. Various vendors provide ready-made, complete solutions to help you build your fans, followers, and friends.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Motorola (owned by Google since 2011) is suing and being sued by everyone. With minimal expertise in computers, software, and business methods, patent examiners who are under increasing pressure to process an enormous backlog of applications have developed a novel and unfortunate form of outsourcing. Sony is suing LG.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Widespread outsourcing of those functions to markets has skewed incentives and provided huge windfalls for individuals who now consider themselves entitled to such rewards. Instead, they mostly outsource the decision-making to Glass Lewis and ISS. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example, In August 2011, consumers in Mexico's fifth largest urban area, Toluca, were offered a new product, PureIt , a home water purifier that enabled them to not have to lug 40-pound garrafones (bottles) of drinking water to their homes from the grocery store.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

One promising example was pointed out to us by Sandhya Shekar, CEO, IIT Madras Research Park , who discussed how they have successfully incubated profitable social enterprises such as DesiCrew, which employs many rural women as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) workers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Others have argued that the rise in skill requirements during this period was driven by changes in technology or outsourcing. The second is the hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” boom in natural gas, when discoveries of large shale gas deposits boosted production by 27% between 2007 and 2011.

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

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. The key lesson from GE is that transforming a company for the digital age cannot be delegated, outsourced, or done piecemeal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. To learn more about Capabilities-Driven Strategy, click here. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

But, in 2011, ours is a different world, which made me wonder: Were these Hearst facilities artifacts of a by-gone era? And outsourced technology providers, such as Bazaarvoice, made it relatively straightforward to add consumer product reviews to retail sites. Is the Seal still something we need?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

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. Jeff Immelt is by all accounts an excellent CEO and a strong advocate of American competitiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

In 2011, some consumers discovered a problem with a Siemens refrigerator, and started to complain to the company. It’s no longer just a place for companies to outsource their production. Similarly, Chinese are now looking for subtler ways to signal their status by avoiding brands that have loud logos. China has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

For instance, it could discourage companies from outsourcing to places like Sialkot. Nike is a leading example of how both anti-sweatshop campaigns and labor standards in trade agreements can be good for innovation and growth in developing countries. And in Sialkot, the unintended positive consequences seem to be at least as important.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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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

Productivity 8

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

If after looking at your log, you’ve uncovered very little wiggle room, you might explore the idea of outsourcing parts of your project to a paid helper, says Gulati. For instance, can you hire someone to help you code? Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? “I knew I wanted to be free to make these big decisions.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

“The most successful freelancers know how to use their network for all sorts of things, like outsourcing work when they have too much,” Horowitz explains. Sure, you may eventually be able to outsource some undesirable tasks but at least at the beginning, they will fall to you. Can you try it out?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

In fact, in 2011 BMW had also founded a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, called BMW iVentures, but it exclusively invested in service startups. In recent years, many high-profile companies, including Volkswagen, Yahoo, Turner/Warner Bros, and Coca-Cola, have shuttered their VC arms or accelerators entirely.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. As soon as they figure out a way of outsourcing thinking to China they won’t think twice. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Matching consultants with actual and emerging company needs is the corporate leader’s quest. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Under the rules of supply chain dynamics, one must study your supplier relationships, formalize a plan of outsourcing and develop collaborations. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Tree™ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com. Show returns or savings on previous appropriations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Number two: We now have a number of very competent independent food testing companies, such as the NutriSciences Company, which I recently wrote a case study about, to whom you can outsource your requirements. You should use those. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here?

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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. In the 1960s and 1970s, American consumer-electronics companies started outsourcing their manufacturing to Asia. To make up the difference, we just borrow. Retaining R&D.

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Health Care Biotechnology Industry Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Following the loss of a backup data tape in 2011, US healthcare benefits provider TRICARE was hit with eight separate privacy lawsuits, including one seeking an astounding $4.9 Governments are not the only ones eager to punish violators. The effect of a punitive privacy class action lawsuit can be far worse than a government fine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

She comments, “Thinking is the one thing you can’t outsource as a leader. Thierry Breton, CEO of IT services company Atos, referred to his own experience struggling with emails when he designed and launched a “Zero-email” program in 2011. ” Others concentrate reflection in a single day.

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