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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

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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. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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What's Next When Offshoring Isn't so Cheap?

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Fear is dead as a management tool. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America. The best idea should win. More candor can only be good for business. You can’t protect jobs with walls.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business Review

but the latter’s volume of exports is so much larger that the bilateral trade deficit has risen by roughly 50% since 2009 and stood at $366 billion in 2015. He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners. job killers.