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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

This “insourcing” of household chores hurt many of the small , service-oriented businesses that had previously handled these tasks. Despite being a leader in the mobile phone market with a market share of over 40%, Nokia experienced a dramatic decline that led to a sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2013.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them.