The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

has the high-skill talent it needs, nor does it have the capacity to train enough people with those skills,” they write. They weren’t turning to the domestic labor market to find the talent they needed, or indeed investing in training local workers, but instead offshoring to where the talent already was.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches. I wonder why? why is everyone smiling?

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

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. There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing.

Outsourcing 50

Outsourcing Strategic Planning Offshoring Resources 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Great people with the right training and opportunity will become better than you – hire great people. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Companies are made of people, so dreams matter. too much group think is a sign of poor leadership.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. This is perhaps the greatest gift of immersing oneself in diversity training and education. This is especially true when it comes to training. This is neither a good thing or a bad thing.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss. Economic research shows that on-the-job training is a more effective means of training than many outside training programs.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 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. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. We can trace how this happened in the U.S. By the time that substantial U.S. had already ceded electronics manufacturing to Asia.

Innovation 8

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus. From day one until they leave the Corps, they are subjected to a battery of unique surprises.

Arkes 15

Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 15

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. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus. From day one until they leave the Corps, they are subjected to a battery of unique surprises.

Arkes 12

Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not a charity move on Walmart’s part, but rather a management effort to educate and train American manufacturers on the hidden costs of offshore sourcing and how to be more effective suppliers to Walmart. For instance, Walmart currently has an effort to add $50 billion in U.S.-made made products over the next 10 years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

And different audiences dictate just what the campaigners promote as the panacea for job growth: higher taxes, lower taxes, deregulation, more regulation, job training — all are constant refrains. These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. What's the reality beyond the rhetoric?

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

And trained data scientists seem to be aware of their scarcity, judging from the compensation packages they are pulling down. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. But here's the burning question: do you need them now and on your payroll?

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

With much of the corporate world's customer interactions handled by offshore call centers, reps are often incapable of relating to customers' needs. Companies should provide simulations and situational training so that reps can walk virtually in customers' footsteps.

Call Center 13

Call Center Offshoring Policies System 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market.

Marketing 15

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. To respond, industry must be more involved in shaping business-led, sector-specific regional training programs. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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. LiveOps solves this in part with training, in part with contests, to create a sense of community where no actual community exists.

Call Center 12

Call Center Offshoring Charisma Video 12

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. Employees were anxious: the business had been up for sale in 2008 and 2009, and there had been little to no investment in plants or training. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

tax laws change: Repatriating the cash from offshore would result in significant tax consequences under current U.S. Kleinbard in wrote in a 2007 Tax Notes article called "Throw Territorial Taxation From the Train" (it's so far behind a paywall that I can't even link to it). firms," attorney Edward D.

GDP 12

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. MW subsea compression train, a condensate pump, a 132kV transformer, a circuit-breaker and advanced VSDs (Variable Speed Drive) and separator were all being qualified for deep water deployment.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

To some, ball bearings are boring, even though these small steel spheres are what keep everything from factory machines and wind turbines as well as cars, trucks, planes, and trains moving smoothly and safely.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

It took decades for the training institutions, business models, and labor markets to emerge that unlocked the benefits of technology for ordinary workers. Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Offshoring manufacturing and design. Very few people have those skills today, so we must train them. In the 1980s, I designed large hard drives the size of washing machines that stored about 1000 MB of data on 14-inch disks. Data storage was very tangible.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

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. Recent work by Joe Fuller at Harvard Business School shows a significant gap in “middle skills,” those that require more training than a high school diploma but less than a college degree.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. The global retailer has recently increased its base salary for a substantial share of its workers.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

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Mentor 50

Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 50

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Developments in telecommunications, computing technologies, and electronic sensors are inspiring less of human intervention in controlling some sensitive equipment including vehicles, planes, helicopters, trains, etc. The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87