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To Outsource Is To Grow: Why It’s Good To Hand Over The Reins

Strategy Driven

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? Outsourcing to professional services may be the quickest and easiest way of handing these situations. There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. Specialist knowledge.

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How Automation Affects Labor Mobility

The Horizons Tracker

The impact of technological and economic changes on industries has been pretty well examined over the years, not least as the impact of declining industries or employers has such a profound impact on the vitality of towns and even cities. Do people leave the area in the search for new work? Do communities enter a terminal decline?

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Why Deep Investment In Automation Results In More Jobs

The Horizons Tracker

A second paper from LSE found that there was no real relation to the return of jobs after a recession, and the investment in automated technologies in a particular industry. They are at pains to point out, however, that this is not to be taken as a sign of jobs being destroyed, or indeed that this technological disruption is a new thing.

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Three Key Strategies Any Business Can Adopt in 2016 to Boost Profitability

Strategy Driven

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial as it has become a part of everyday life.

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Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy

Harvard Business Review

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Through its outsourcing agreements, Airtel had shrunk to its core. An HBR Insight Center.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

And instead of assigning a high-variety group from inside and around their organization to develop solutions, they’ll tend to go to the usual suspects, keep the group small, and rely on what they see, know and believe (which, with complex problems, isn’t nearly enough). ” The Power of Questions. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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Change management and sales: influencing the buying decision path

Strategy Driven

I actually developed a pre-sales model that facilitates a buyer’s change management process call Buying Facilitation®. It not only teaches buyers how to get the requisite buy-in so their daily functioning won’t be compromised – managing the people, policies, technology, and old vendor, etc. Consider leaving a comment!