Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Outsourcing is the process in which a business will hire a third party to complete tasks that they do not want to complete themselves. If you are wondering why so many companies choose to outsource, look no further. Sometimes outsourcing is the only way a business will gain access to a particular type of service or resource.

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Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Real Estate Company Brand Operations 299

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. The Autonomous Outsourcer. Business process outsourcing becomes business process algorithmization. As with traditional outsourcing, flexibility, responsiveness, and interoperability invariably prove problematic.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. It allows companies to hire foreign workers for specialized jobs that can be challenging to fill. But in April, just after U.S.

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Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9