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.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 8

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. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

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.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. 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. Sponsored by SAS.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

senators — seeks to increase the number of visas that the US government can grant highly-skilled workers (aka H1B visas), from 65,000 to around 110,000 a year, it is likely to constraint non-American companies operating in the US. Change management India Information & technology'

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

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. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

Process 9

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. 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. Think about local needs.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

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. Railway operators and wind farm owners were among the first to deploy the concept. That lag poses dangers.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 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.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

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.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Facilitate Acquisitions.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

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.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

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. Essential background. “Inside AT&T’s Talent Overhaul” 5.

Globalization 8

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.

Outsourcing 69

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 69

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'

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

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.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 8

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

By using readily available computations of vast amounts of data, a manufacturer can leverage analytics to generate real-time insights to understand the needs of end consumers and product performance under a myriad of operating conditions. Building the New “Mega Segments”: Which Content Providers Will Play to Win?

Content 8

Content Tools Offshoring Analysis 8

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.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 9

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. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. Mining companies are increasingly moving to the latest automation technology to modernize their operations.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners. Many CEOs would love to be cast in a pro-American light, even if it costs a few pennies of quarterly earnings. manufacturing has borne the cost of China’s export scale.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. the Obama administration started to incorporate the “social cost of carbon” in decision-making and the Pentagon made climate change a military priority. In the U.S.,

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8