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

Strategy Driven

There are offshore markets to explore too. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. 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. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

.—while still a net importer of oil—is now selling millions of barrels of oil to China, Britain, Mexico, and India, a new reality made possible when restrictions on crude oil exports were lifted in 2015. The soaring U.S. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business Review

As shown in the exhibit below, for each of the years 2006 through 2015 the average total compensation of the 500 highest-paid U.S. executives using ARG numbers was greater than the average total compensation of the 500 highest paid using EFV measures, and markedly so in 2006-2007 and 2012-2015, when the stock markets were booming.

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Why the U.S. Needs Wage Insurance

Harvard Business Review

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services.

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Lifelong Learning Is Good for Your Health, Your Wallet, and Your Social Life

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Doreetha Daniels received her associate degree in social sciences from College of the Canyons, in Santa Clarita, California. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work. But Daniels wasn’t a typical student: She was 99 years old. Learning is positive for health.

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Distinguish Yourself from the Market, Not Just Other Applicants

Harvard Business Review

to low-cost countries by 2015. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. Between 2007 and 2008, financial, information, and professional service jobs were outsourced at an average rate of 5.4% (PDF). John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Through Paypal, Nigerians spent $610 million via their mobile phones on international shopping in 2015, depriving local banks forex fees. This is critical because a future where blockchain usurps central banks by eliminating clearing houses and citizens do business locally but bank offshore , only innovation will guarantee survival.