The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2020

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.

Analysis 100

Analysis Technology Industry Outsourcing 100

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

Blog 294

Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 294

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. As recently as 10 years ago global outsourcing was largely limited to manufacturing or lower-level service jobs. In the future, many more managerial and professional jobs will be outsourced.

Health Care 132

Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

Blog 313

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 313

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Early in my career I gathered some data for a client on cooking. A final adaptation should be done through technological innovation, which is how Big Food really got its start. One promising innovation is MATS technology, or microwave assisted thermal sterilization, created at Washington State University.

Industry 15

Industry Supply Chain Long-term Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. Strategies that use both internal and external (outsourced) resources enable sales ops leaders to build and manage these diverse capabilities cost-effectively.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choices. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business. Loosen up the notion of the career ladder. A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S.

Policies 8

Policies Motivation Chief Executive Officer White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout my career, I have consistently faced the question, "How does HR add value in a business?" Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Other areas where machine intelligence could soon be commonly used include: Career planning. Many employees worry about the consequences of all of this technology on their roles.

Process 12

Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home.

Stress 14

Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

GE’s talent management people, for example, play a critical role, at both the corporate and business-unit level, in filling key positions, insuring smooth successions, driving company-wide review processes, and building tools that managers can use to direct their own careers. On paper, this approach makes perfect sense.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

MBAs who lack programming skills often ask this question when they pursue careers in technology companies. Rather, my goal with the survey was to learn whether MBAs saw this well designed and rigorous course as a good investment of their time, given their career objectives and other course options. It has been edited slightly.

Survey 9

Survey Software Information Technology Course 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Another psychological dynamic contributing to sudden vincibility is that successful business leaders usually have a strong interest in protecting their current products, customers, and investments — and therefore may unconsciously overlook or avoid trends or technologies that might threaten that base. That's why the late C.K.

Prahalad 14

Prahalad Outsourcing Drucker Class 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. By taking on too many household responsibilities while men take free time to recharge and advance their careers, women can lose sight of their priorities and fail to move ahead in areas that are most important to them.

Delegation 8

Delegation Outsourcing Insurance Loyalty 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Working with a hiring agency is also a good alternative for those who are more equipped to just outsource the task. Companies also have career pages on their own websites where candidates can make their interests known or can find the resources to email the company.

Strategy 52

Strategy Planning Resources Long-term 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 The idea was to increase the focus on clients, improve flexibility and scalability, eliminate redundancy and excess costs, accelerate growth and profitability, and improve career opportunities.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Analysis Globalization Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. Where has this stuff been hiding?” We’re just not there yet.

Metrics 11

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. When you come across authorities on topics that could help you advance your career, track them for a while, and then follow those who seem the most valuable.

Mentor 8

Mentor Agility System Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

WF: What do you see as the main career lessons of the book? TC: One thing the book suggests is that only being technically skilled may not be that useful, because those jobs can be outsourced or even turned over to smart machines. Do you see the path towards greater specialization as the path to career security? Is that Good?

Management 11

Management Software Long-term Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These relationships were essential in gaining the confidence of customers who had qualms about outsourcing to IBM. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. “The only reason I could even think about doing something like this is that early in my career was because I was living beneath my means,” she says.

Project 8

Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.

Storytelling 16

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

How To 9

How To Guidelines Case Study Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The media and technology sectors have traditionally been the biggest employers of freelancers but the good news is that “almost every industry is expanding their use of contingent workers,” says King. . As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you.

Planning 8

Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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.

Diversity 326

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 326

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Peer Review Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Research has shown that executives with social CEOs say their CEOs’ social media presence makes them feel inspired (52%), technologically advanced (46%), and proud (41%). Outsourcing sociability might save time but employees can sniff out inauthenticity in a nanosecond. Embrace a “media company mindset.”

Media 8

Media CEO Video Chief Executive Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

She went onto a journalism career at the Financial Times, Globe and Mail, and Reuters, and wrote books on Russia’s transition to capitalism and the rise of the global plutocracy. There is also a technology outsourcing industry. There’s been a lot of Chinese investment in that part of the Ukrainian economy.

Politics 8

Politics Tourism Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

By outsourcing the decision to someone else, you “lose control over the outcome,” Brett says. Ultimately, what’s best for the organization may not be the same as what’s best for your career. Joyeeta Das, the CEO and founder of Gyana, a big-data company based in the UK, used to work at a large technology company.

How To 8

How To Project Software Case Study 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. I’m glad I did. But here’s the thing.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Now back at work as a single parent, she’ll face a choice: To find ways to continue to pursue an intense professional life without support from a spouse, or to throttle back her career to give her more time to focus on parenting. It’s a transition Sophie Vandebroek knows all too well.

Chief Technology Officer 8

Chief Technology Officer Travel Chief Operating Officer Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For example, Qualcomm’s CDMA mobile technology was a breakthrough that led to its IPO in 1991. Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

Innovation 13

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 13