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Strategic Staffing: The Advantages of Partnering With Outsourcing Companies for Remote Employees

Strategy Driven

Strategic staffing has become crucial for organizations to stay competitive and agile. This article explores the benefits of this strategic decision, particularly focusing on the advantages of remote and offshore teams. This agility is particularly valuable in dynamic industries where market conditions can change rapidly.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

The quest to cut costs per engineer drives new entrants into using engineering and R&D resources from India and China. Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Oil companies will need to develop both new conventional and unconventional crude oil resources to keep up with current demand for roughly one million more barrels of oil every year in addition to replacing the approximately four million barrels lost annually as reservoirs are naturally depleted.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo RSS Feed A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo By Rajesh Setty on Thu 04 Dec 2008, 8:02 PM - View Comments More often than not people use buzzwords without fully understanding what they actually mean. Its even 100% free! Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur.

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How the Natural Resources Business Is Turning into a Technology Industry

Harvard Business Review

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Historically, the resources sector followed a dig-and-deliver model, where success was mainly about the size and quality of assets.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”