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

N2Growth Blog

Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue. Don’t outsource the hard rigor of transformation – insource it by getting smarter, faster, and more creative.

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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. Don’t treat your stated strategy as a given if it’s not. 1] Defined in HBR’s Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It (Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull, MARCH 2015). ” -John Maeda.

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

Harvard Business Review

MIT’s Zeynep Ton says a higher minimum wage could help employers , provided they know how to structure their business around a “good jobs” strategy. Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed. Manufacturing and Insourcing. Pisano and Willy C.

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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. Matt Denesuk , Chief Data Scientist, told me, “Who you hire depends on your strategy. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'