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7 Outsourcing Trends You Should Keep an Eye on in 2020

Strategy Driven

This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Businesses will incorporate these technologies to interact with their customers. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity. In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. Furthermore, the United States outsources around 300,000 jobs annually.

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To Outsource Is To Grow: Why It’s Good To Hand Over The Reins

Strategy Driven

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. Consider the competencies required to deliver on some typical sales ops projects. Companies such as GE use internal teams to oversee many sales ops projects.

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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems. However, many companies don’t do that.

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The Next Wave of Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. Apple uses Foxconn to make iPads, iPhones, and iPads.

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