Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2024

Strategic staffing has become crucial for organizations to stay competitive and agile. This article explores the benefits of this strategic decision, particularly focusing on the advantages of remote and offshore teams. This agility is particularly valuable in dynamic industries where market conditions can change rapidly.

Outsourcing 99

Outsourcing Company Offshoring Agility 99

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. Companies will have to become more agile, automated, and data-driven in order to survive. The organization kept the prices from fluctuating too wildly.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China. Markarian states, “You need strong company managers to set up remote sites.” This model never lasts,” says Markarian.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when. Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. Managing a company’s workforce will be crucial. For example, the oil industry depended on having the most plentiful reserves.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. Raised customers’ expectations.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 10