Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. Markarian states, “You need strong company managers to set up remote sites.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. Moreover, governments, concerned about job-creation, data-security, and user-privacy, are challenging the offshoring model.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Fear is dead as a management tool. The best idea should win.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. .” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. In the middle office, risk and compliance management will largely watch bots that are not prone to human error or fraud, supported by sophisticated models to predict quality and compliance issues.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation' Many of the solutions proposed are around paying people more to manufacture in the USA.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning. Every day, each of us is offered the opportunity to pursue intellectual development in ways that are tailored to our learning style.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. It doesn’t ask whether we need to do this activity at all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

” Yet most major technologies develop over decades, as large numbers of people learn how to apply, adapt, and improve the initial invention. But over the next century, weavers improved their skills and mechanics and managers made adaptations and improvements, generating a twenty-fold increase in output per hour.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. Offshoring manufacturing and design. They achieved differentiation by adding software layers for management and application development, rather than by designing better hardware.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. days of innovation).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

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