Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Do you wish to cut down on your costs without compromising your services? Apart from its cost-cutting benefits, outsourcing helps companies focus on their core business. This is important considering the different limitations and cost pressures that businesses face in regard to their outsourcing needs. billion in 2018.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. dollar, rising fuel costs and the risks inherent in longer supply chains have many companies rethinking their sourcing strategies. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Is it time to retrench?

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Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too.

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Outsourcing Strategic Planning Offshoring Resources 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore tax havens. But groups like Oxfam and CARE argue that the current system wastes too much food aid on shipping costs. We’ll see you next week under our new name and on our new schedule — but with the same great roundup of management thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In each of these cases, the combination of advances in robotics and automation and rising wages in developing countries has upended the promise of cost reductions through outsourcing. For managers, the trend toward botsourcing will require a shift in thinking. Technology'

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Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The quest to cut costs per engineer drives new entrants into using engineering and R&D resources from India and China. However, we found that the companies who are most successful with global engineering have vastly different motivations beyond cost reduction, albeit some of the same challenges as new entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Identifying the early onset of abnormal operating conditions minimizes disruption and avoids unnecessary periods of down time that often result in lost production or increased costs. It also means that experts can be consulted remotely from anywhere around the world, as required.

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Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

” Forty years later, the concept of sales operations or “sales ops” has become widely accepted as essential for effective sales management. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Because management and professional services have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, Sally thought her job and location were reasonably safe. to low-cost countries by 2015. Every discipline evolves.

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

It is our money that funds these companies, and, through investment institutions, we reap the dividends from their profits to pay for our pensions and other costs. Consider BlackRock, the world’s biggest investment manager. To repeat, BlackRock is one of the best resourced fund managers in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. Within the first year of our effort net sales increased 27 percent while fixed costs were reduced by 40 percent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. Moreover, governments, concerned about job-creation, data-security, and user-privacy, are challenging the offshoring model.

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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. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. As a result, they may achieve modest savings, but in many cases they will miss out on opportunities to dramatically improve process outcomes, quality, costs, and cycle times. Why RPA Needs Process Analysis.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain. Many of the jobs in the most advanced semiconductor-manufacturing plants are as complex as a lunar-landing mission. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near. to Asia.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. Non-governmental organizations have calculated that it would cost about $600 million per year to bring all Bangladeshi factories up to Western standards.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. As you prepare for the inflection point, be pragmatic about cost-benefit tradeoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

While there is a lot of Hadoopalooza in the technology press about the tools for managing big data, and they are wonderful, it's also true that they are a) widely available, and b) mostly free. They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. An HBR Management Puzzle.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Strategic cash usually is invested in high quality short-term securities; this ensures safety and liquidity, but produces a meager return on investment—especially in a low interest rate environment—and does not achieve the company's cost of capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. While that is still relevant, the emerging digital economy has provided new channels to reach customers at better cost models. Within a decade, 80% of staff should be able to automate activities like customer onboarding, sales, support, and investment management.

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Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

These factors include China's rapidly rising labor costs, which we discussed in an earlier HBR blog ; the increased value of the yuan; the challenge of managing long-distance supply chains; the quality control concerns that continue to haunt many manufacturers that have offshored production; and the significantly higher productivity of U.S.

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Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to. Offshoring manufacturing and design. to lower-cost geographies, but the design work continued in the U.S. Data storage was very tangible.

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Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Tech titans such as Google and Amazon are working to connect more and more types of objects to the web by offering mobile interfaces for managing just about anything. SKF now provides 45 different iPad apps so managers can monitor the maintenance, speed, and reliability of up to 8,000 kinds of smart objects. That lag poses dangers.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Fear is dead as a management tool. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The best idea should win.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

With the trend toward cloud computing continuing to grow, it is vital that third-party vendor relationships are managed ever more closely. Too many firms are easily persuaded by the cost savings. More recently, the Global Payments breach in April 2012 cost $93.9 IT management' million, including $35.9

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CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

No, it's about cost. And without going into massive detail on economics, I've always liked the really simple logic around renewables — they have zero variable cost (wind, sunshine, and underground heat are free). In short, compared to focusing on energy efficiency, nuclear is really expensive.

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Energy Transportation Offshoring Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Open-source operating systems, accessible design tools, and 3D printing are making development and prototyping easier, and the crashing prices of microchips, sensors, and other components now make it possible for a small company to design sophisticated, commercially relevant devices at reasonable cost.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

has been trumpeted as a major reversal of the trend of sending jobs abroad to lower cost locations, and has been characterized in the press as a kind of " onshoring " story. In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. from offshore. from offshore. These are companies like Hooven-Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio which provides labels for Tide and Mr. Clean products.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The first reason that many companies decide to outsourcing is that the operational and labour costs are much cheaper than hiring an employee into the business. They won’t need to pay a full time employee, but they will still be able to have a professional, expert service. Global Knowledge.

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Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere." Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 In an age of digitization, transport costs are trivial and activity can be relocated anywhere quickly. I asked Mihir A.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Capital superabundance, combined with tepid economic growth, has produced historically low capital costs for most large companies. But when capital costs are low, the time value of money is low.

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