Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Crazy ideas, of course, can be a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Real craziness is what gets outsourced. Of course, as anyone following global trends in manufacturing, software development, and customer support well knows, outsourcing dynamics create their own dysfunctional dependencies.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Management Core Competence Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. The Autonomous Outsourcer. Business process outsourcing becomes business process algorithmization. The same sensibilities and economic opportunities that make outsourcing appealing become managerial principles for computational autonomy.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems. In the past three decades, managers have embraced off-shoring, outsourcing, and open innovation. Such information collection and distribution required massive scale and drove competitive advantage.

Porter 12

Porter Competitive Advantage Safe Harbor Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Offshore Outsourced Product Development. Let''s examine one specific aspect of Otis Elevator, a unit of the Top 100 innovator United Technologies Corp. In fact, these six Indian engineers were not employees of Otis at all, but rather on the payroll of an outsourced product development company headquartered in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. However, our research suggests that outsourcing production is not inexorably tied to poor workplace conditions.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Two factors making global thinking a key variable for the future are the dramatic projected increases in global trade and integrated global technology, such as e-commerce. Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage.

Competitive Advantage 140

Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That means cracking down on tax shelters that give some businesses a competitive advantage. That means strengthening regulation where some businesses are putting competitive pressure on others by skimping on safety, by denying workers basic benefits, or by operating with dangerous degrees of leverage.

Class 8

Class Outsourcing Long-term Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

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

JANUARY 23, 2014

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. What is the business’s value proposition and it sources of competitive advantage?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

The secret to success when technology is driving change rapidly in an established industry is to envision possibilities that many consider unthinkable: to make an effort to envision what a disruptive change might look like, and how it will transform the entire business process. (If Is anybody steering the ship?

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. ” Rather, this approach recognizes a fundamental shift in the sources of value creation and competitive advantage toward software. And its importance as a source of value will only continue to grow.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Executives are bombarded with bestselling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and practices contradict each other. Should you create a blue ocean, be adaptive, play to win — or forget about a sustainable competitive advantage altogether?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

The challenge for business schools will be that most of their faculty don’t have coaching expertise and credentials, so when it’s outsourced, it’s often not fully integrated into the program. One is not better than the other, but having an equal balance of both will give you a competitive advantage. Virtual reality.

Leadership Development 256

Leadership Development Development Leadership Globalization 256