Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. The second is the value of distributed leadership—a team culture that allows every person to provide direction when he or she has expertise that will help the team succeed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 2, 2013

She was struck by their ability to execute a seamless recovery: “The first offshore race I did with the Ramblers lit a fire as to why I wanted to join them as a team member. She works in the areas of leadership, executive coaching, and team effectiveness. Murphy is the director of client services at Syncretics.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” Almost 90 percent said that students who excel at creative problem solving will have higher-earning job opportunities, and 85 percent agreed that these skills are in high demand for today’s higher-paying careers.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. When asked how satisfied they were with the overall performance of their offshore operations, 83% of them said that they were either satisfied or highly satisfied.

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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. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. 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. This model never lasts,” says Markarian.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

As an example, a recent job posting on the website of a global healthcare company seeks an individual for a sales operations leadership position who can do the following: Strategy: •Contribute to the 1- and 3-year business vision as a member of the executive leadership team.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. This is why I cringe when I see pharmaceutical makers shipping more and more of their production and development capability offshore, or when I see semiconductor tool makers move their manufacturing from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. Expertise that directly supports corporate leadership is also likely to remain in its current location because of its centrality to the leadership center of the organization. Become a contractor.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. But so much of leadership is the soft stuff; how do we adapt that to the new fragmented, anonymous workforce?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year. The lack of transparency from machine learning is one of the greatest cultural and leadership challenges to overcome with the technology.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. If you want to stake out a leadership position in big data for your company — and I would encourage you to do so — you don't really have an alternative to joining the data scientist recruiting scrum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

British Petroleum: The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, in April 2010, resulted in a massive crisis for BP and its partners. Later, the cruise-line company issued a statement that cited a "breakdown in communication in relaying the passengers' concern.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Blueprint the broader impact on roles, skills, controls, leadership, workforce and talent management, and social contracts. Companies will experience huge changes as physical infrastructure disappears, offshore capabilities are repatriated, more services become self-service and virtual, and customers begin to interact more with robots.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books. Incentives to maximize shareholder value pushed managers toward decisions that paid off in the short term but were devastating to the long term viability of firms.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Amelie, a reservoir engineer from PET, explained how she was harassed while working offshore and how her team’s peer support helped her deal with this unpleasant situation: One of my colleagues noticed the fact that I was quite disturbed and cold with this guy we were working with, and he asked me why.

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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.

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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. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. With leadership engagement and support, this system will thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Although the United States maintains world leadership in many advanced industries, that leadership position is eroding. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real. Yet, there is a problem. Targeted government policy could encourage similar initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The BP Commission properly criticized the federal government for failing to assume leadership soon enough or to act effectively in coordinating the private sector and public sector (federal, state and local) actors. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline. The company also plans to release remotely-controlled autonomous ship that would travel through international waters by 2025 and release fully-autonomous unmanned ships that would traverse the ocean by 2035.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

“What companies want is a leadership base that at least somewhat parallels their customer base. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g. ” Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then China’s President Xi said he’ll be attending the annual bigwig gathering in Davos for the first time, with reports of China’s interest in filling trade gaps left by Brexit and possible leadership gaps on climate left by Trump. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island.

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