Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. 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. featuring Ella Fitzgerald.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently. It also means that experts can be consulted remotely from anywhere around the world, as required.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

With the exception of two jet-engine factories and two plants that make heavy equipment, all were located outside the United States. 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.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Major oil and gas producers are now trying to apply lessons from the shale revolution’s use of cutting-edge technologies to reduce development cycle times and costs for offshore conventional oil projects by about 40-50%.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The publicly traded, limited liability company is the engine of the modern western economy. But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. Its investments support our prosperity.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Finance Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

We've known for a decade or more that this shift to more production-engineered knowledge work was underway. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. You need to do something to distinguish your skills from "everyday" professional services.

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. ” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Coupled with that our Usability engineers made some changes based on the feedback they received from “ eye-gaze tracking &# and hotspot analysis. Co-branding , of course is an out-of-the-box feature.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

“In some offshore wind applications, changing the main bearing on a turbine is so expensive that it undermines the business case for building the turbine in the first place,” said Filippo Zingariello, director of global strategic development at SKF.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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. We can have engineering work more closely with production. First, a little relevant history: In the 1950s economic expansion drove growing demand for appliances.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. Lending from Europe remained flat, and the gap was filled from elsewhere — largely Asian offshore centers and the U.K. Filling the Gap.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Offshoring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

given the nation’s advantages in creativity, software, and cloud-based business organization, even if much of the resulting new production winds up offshore. Such an age could be beneficial for the U.S. Beyond that, this surge could help cities. That leaves urban economies narrower than they might be.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad. Search engine optimisation is a must for any company who has a website. Global Knowledge.

Outsourcing 69

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 69

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete. And the difficulty of acquiring the new skills affects employers as well.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Perhaps the biggest job killer — and it's the greatest threat to the survival of America's once-vibrant middle class — is the systematic offshoring of our high-tech manufacturing capacity.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates. In three months in 2012, Russia’s share of malicious hosts rose by around 10%, and the United States lost 10% of its bad boy computers.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). Companies mistakenly write off these reports as irrelevant to them.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project.

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Engineers designed the eardrum of the system from special crystals that respond to sound wave vibrations and convert them into electricity (Engineers call this effect ‘piezoelectricity’). ” GE data scientists and engineers then work to develop algorithms to spot similar odd sounds in the future.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. At the same time, technological innovation in transportation, the largest single user of oil, is helping to lower energy consumption as engines become more fuel efficient and the use of autonomous and electric vehicles grows.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

These are nuclear engineers, hydraulic and electrical systems workers, and the rich ecosystem of people who make and run what we use everyday — from life-saving tubing hook-ups in hospital rooms to the bridges we cross. These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here.

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The law, a historical accident dating back to 1872, keeps a steady flow of engineering and entrepreneurial talent circulating around the Valley. Equally counter-productive are tax policies that force foreign earnings to be spent offshore, instead of allowing them to be repatriated and invested in more innovation at home. And quickly.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 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 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. workers in engineering, manufacturing, even aerospace. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value. But we never ask value for whom? Over the past two decades, much of the economic value of U.S.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

So far, Tesla has used this flexibility to improve efficiency and engineer its own electric-specific car designs, but an easy next step would be to give customers a level of control over their purchases that competitors cannot touch. It also lets the company modify its manufacturing line in a matter of days, not months.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Productivity Products Competitive Advantage 8

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

In Mali’s capital Bamako, Resolute Mining firm, which took over gold-rich Syama mine since 2015, is partnering with Swedish engineering company Sandvik to implement the world’s first fully automated mine. The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline. million ounces of gold.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Its growth has accelerated in recent years as China has embraced automation as way to offset rising wages that could make it less competitive as an offshoring center. Assembled in China” recently noted that if he called a meeting of all the tooling engineers in the U.S., technology company needs.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And even if they themselves were engineered to be simpatico, it is hard to imagine that radical increases in the offshoring of labor services would be viewed as a successful and therefore sustainable outcome in an era of so much concern about jobs. (Of But purely telematic interactions do sound a bit cold.

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8