Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

The first step is “recognizing that there are no known answers, that no outsourced provider is going to figure it out for you—at least fast enough—and that the old way of figuring things out isn’t going to work anymore.”. A highly engineered conversation—engineered serendipity. And collisions can be engineered.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Your customers won’t consider the magnitude of your operations when going through your website. This is one reason why 64% of the B2B marketers outsource their demanding copy needs. Use search engines to drive traffic. Online visitors today are using search engines more than ever before. This translates to 3.5

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2023

Therefore, it could be worth outsourcing this role to freelance writers who can pull together content that excels. Get to Grips With SEO SEO (search engine optimisation) is the process of boosting your website to increase its visibility in search engine results. We’re not saying you have to be a wordsmith either.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

But as operations begin, some equipment may become redundant. The opportune time to start tracking your cash flow is during the initial phase of your operation. Use search engine optimization techniques to build a great website and attract customers to your business. Outsource some tasks. Get rid of surplus equipment.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 17, 2021

There are tasks and responsibilities that are important to outsource where you can. It’s therefore useful to have a team member or outsourced agency to help with SEO and making sure it’s being done right. The use of search engine optimization is one that’s becoming increasingly focused on. Hire The Experts.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Unforeseen circumstances aren’t uncommon regardless of the type of business you operate. Everything from outsourced drivers to a pallet delivery company can be considered an essential service for smoothing out the bumps in your logistics chain. Analytics will help you get an objective look at your logistics chain.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. Equally dangerous is the computer operator who props open the data center door to make it easier to allow the guy who says he’s the A/C maintenance engineer get in and out.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2019

If you’re spending too many of them attempting to manage your whole operation and too few of them doing the creative thinking and growth-oriented work required to take your business further, you need to think about outsourcing. Depending on your needs, outsourcing could be the ideal solution. The benefits are huge.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Because of this, every business should outsource. With that in mind, here are eight tasks to outsource in small business. Outsourcing in business doesn’t have to mean giving up employees entirely. Thankfully, you can outsource the training of your team to an expert, which avoids any problems and ensures the task is done well.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2017

Whatever your business, whatever its size and whatever industry you operate in, you doubtless walk the same fine line as any other business, the line between maximising your profits and keeping your operational costs down to a minimum. Outsource your marketing. Photo courtesy of Pexels.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 30, 2019

In order to find even a bit of success, you’re going to need a bunch of facets to be operating smoothly, and a way to solidify that is to get the appropriate help that can get you off the ground or over the line. They also do blog posts with appropriate links that can boost search engine optimization. A Graphic Designer. A Consultant.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2019

Data leaks, email threats, cyber crime and malware all present a colossal threat to operating businesses globally. A start-up company of cyber professionals who can consult and provide outsourced services is a literal goldmine currently. Because the industry is currently booming, the demand for software engineers is unprecedented.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2017

You can outsource this to an external company if you want to, or you can do it alone. Everyone has a mobile phone, and your business should make use of that if you want to make sure that your business is operating in this century. Understand the Role of Search Engines. Content marketing is a big deal right now.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 18, 2021

When starting a business from scratch, it is important to understand the advantages of outsourcing certain tasks and operations, but far too many entrepreneurs try to do it all. But while entrepreneurs are busy with the administration, strategy, payroll, and technical aspects of daily operations, they do not focus on growth.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 23, 2021

If you want to capture people from different sources including social media, paid ads, and search engines you need to lead them to the website of your company. They work on administrative components such as the server, the database, the operating system, and the software and make sure these components run smoothly together.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry. Unlike other outsourcing hubs, Filipinos are intimately familiar with American culture, a legacy of more than 30 years of American colonial rule. Traditionally, business process outsourcing was associated with high-volume, low-price work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Their RFP-responsive outsourcing expertise had perversely obscured essential insights into what creative fulfillment should mean for both customers and client.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

But suddenly, the case for outsourcing isn't so clear. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Outsourcing must be part of a larger global strategy. Rethink product design , choosing fewer and simpler features that better suit the market instead of over-engineering.

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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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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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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The shorter workday forced the team to prioritize effectively, limit interruptions, and operate at a much more deliberate level for the first few hours of the day. Outsource: If it can’t be automated, it can probably be delegated or outsourced. Start: Do whatever it takes to start your engine.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

People often ask me about how I managed to build this global engineering team at RebelMouse , and before that at Huffington Post, relaying their outsourcing horror stories and wondering how I got around them. Without that we operate blindly to each other since there is no tapping someone on the shoulder as there would be in an office.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

I''ve interviewed over 150 impressive, young entrepreneurs and engineers throughout the Arab world. Silicon Valley and other global tech operating companies get this. LinkedIn, who already had five million members from the Middle East without any presence there at all, also just opened operations for the region and Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. ” One of the company’s co-founders immediately “got” the idea, and I soon had one of the start-up’s best software engineers sleeping on my couch for a week as we sketched out prototypes.

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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. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Some years ago I asked a group of 700 engineers from two large Silicon Valley companies to assess their performance relative to their peers. One group was a well-paid, well-educated group of client-facing engineers. The other group consisted of production employees operating in a factory setting. The results were startling.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is due to these workers that success can be achieved, and that the day-to-day operations run smoothly. Every single person has a certain role to play within the business operations. For instance, you can outsource a chief financial officer that can offer advice to the company on how to best improve their profitability.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

No matter what sector your business operates in, online visibility is essential to your success. In order to drive traffic to your site and facilitate brand recognition, you’ll need to rank highly on search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords and terms that are relevant to your business. Secure Backlinks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Granted, we don't have a long history in cars like Nissan does, but our power electronics engineering is every bit as good. I don't think they'd be capable of reverse engineering every one of the components.". "I

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

There''s no doubt that people inside large companies over-engineer business plans, but don''t let the pendulum swing too far the other way. That doesn''t mean that companies should either outsource the task or bring in entirely fresh blood. Of course, the value of a tool depends on its application. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Make the tough calls on people.

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