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What's Next When Offshoring Isn't so Cheap?

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China.

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How the Natural Resources Business Is Turning into a Technology Industry

Harvard Business Review

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories.

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The Talent Crisis in U.S. Engineering

Harvard Business Review

I joined Memorex Corporation in the early 1980s as a mechanical design engineer. As advances in technology have allowed us to work in more virtual ways, we have literally and figuratively lost touch with the products we're building. Offshoring manufacturing and design. featuring Ella Fitzgerald. Data storage was very tangible.

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Big Data and Big Oil: GE’s Systems and Sensors Drive Efficiencies for BP

Harvard Business Review

By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently. trillion of relevant sectors.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

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. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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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. The soaring U.S.