Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on.

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Organization Outsourcing Mintzberg Core Competence 234

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. We can have engineering work more closely with production. GE needed to reduce new product development cycles from 3-4 years to 1-1.5 It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” Bill Ruh was selected in 2011. ” Hiring for Growth. .”

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8