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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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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. And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them.