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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

Don’t outsource the hard rigor of transformation – insource it by getting smarter, faster, and more creative. Don’t pin your success to purveyors of the ethereal by signing multi-year contracts with large consultancies guaranteeing to lead you out of the old economy desert into the promise land of digital transformation.

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Intangible Loss of Outsourced Innovation

Mills Scofield

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. In November, I spoke with Bernard Charlès , CEO of Dassault Systèmes , (DS), creator of 3D simulation products for manufacturing to life sciences.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. That’s why I was interested to see how David Komlos and David Benjamin tackled the subject. Their new book is Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast. ” -John Maeda.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed. Manufacturing and Insourcing. Obama mentioned a trend toward “insourcing” — the return of manufacturing jobs from abroad — and vowed to promote advanced manufacturing via four new manufacturing “institutes.”

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise.

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Aggressive Talent Wars Are Good for Cities

Harvard Business Review

Non-competes have contributed to the more rigid, vertically integrated, and prone to insourcing ethos of Boston’s high tech region. California’s lack of non-compete agreements is the reason Marissa Mayer could assume the position of CEO at Yahoo! immediately upon leaving its direct competitor, Google.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. .” To get these two cultures to work together, first we had a strong commitment from the top, from CEO Jeff Immelt.