N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology? The Downside of Best Practices by @mikemyatt [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

R&D and manufacturing must be located close to each other so their people can together figure out how to develop a product that can be manufactured at a cost and level of quality that will make it a commercial success. to Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On a trip to South America last fall, for instance, I recall talking to people in the oil industry about a complicated offshore drilling project. Our goal is to convene the world's best thinking on how to attack this problem. Until recently, only U.S. competitiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus.

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Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring. But knowledge work requires, so workers must get involved in redesigning their work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. As the expanding network lets us reconsider how to allocate work and who to allocate it to, one emerging question is how to best lead that more distributed work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. See this HBR article on how to redesign knowledge work, including health care.). How to Rehabilitate Medicare’s “Post-Acute” Services. See this HBR article on attempts to apply the focused factory concept to health care.)

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. So early preparation is needed. Lessons from automakers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Angelika, a petroleum engineer at PET, explained: When I was given this challenge, I really didn’t know how to do it. When they started work in the engineering industry, many of the women we interviewed were unclear about how to approach certain tasks and whether they were doing things correctly. Confidence needs to be built.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. It's time to stop thinking about getting back to yesterday's prosperity — and time to start thinking about how to get past it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Perhaps the biggest job killer — and it's the greatest threat to the survival of America's once-vibrant middle class — is the systematic offshoring of our high-tech manufacturing capacity. But in our arrogance and naiveté, we failed to realize that a nation that no longer makes things will eventually forget how to invent them.

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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. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. The workplace was divided into functional areas; no one knew how to work together. First, a little relevant history: In the 1950s economic expansion drove growing demand for appliances.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Offshoring manufacturing and design. In this expanded role for IT, how can we manage such physical systems without knowing how to design and manufacture them? In the 1980s, I designed large hard drives the size of washing machines that stored about 1000 MB of data on 14-inch disks. Data storage was very tangible.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Out of all the speakers on today’s agenda David is the one I’d be most interested in having dinner with. Looking to hire great leaders – hire one of our veterans.

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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. Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

While we can disagree about how to fix the problem, we must acknowledge that globalization is a hard sell if it doesn’t address these distributive issues. This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. The same goes for technology.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Don't Praise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But to fully leverage IoT’s potential, manufacturers need to understand why they need to use IoT analytics and how to build infrastructure and skills, identify the information needs, and start converting data into meaningful insights and foresights.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building. Revenue sits on the table for those companies willing to move beyond mere process automation and explore how to combine their physical and digital resources in innovative ways for the customer and business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the military, war games can be a vital tool for learning how to respond to crisis situations. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable. The possibility of a well blow-out was explicitly addressed by systems, processes and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In contrast to the labor-intensive cut-and-stitch process that has defined the athletic footwear industry for decades, Nike figured out how to knit a shoe from the sole upward in one piece, using a single, highly configurable machine. How much leeway do your customers get?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere." Given the nature of Washington today, though, we should probably be more modest and consider how to modify the corporate tax rather than abandon it. I asked Mihir A.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

So, the primary way that multinationals in particular lower their tax burden is by keeping profits “offshore” to avoid paying taxes. One of the toughest questions in corporate tax reform is how to treat foreign income. companies pay so little in taxes by holding cash offshore.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not a charity move on Walmart’s part, but rather a management effort to educate and train American manufacturers on the hidden costs of offshore sourcing and how to be more effective suppliers to Walmart. Trump knows how to use the bully pulpit to press this kind of thinking on all big-box retailers and big distributors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Mihir, you wrote an article for HBR a couple years ago on how to fix the U.S. There’s $140 to $160 billion of offshore cash, $100 billion of it is in Ireland. One very interesting proposal came from Robert Reich, a liberal Democratic economist who recommended that the U.S. Personally I think that would solve the problem.

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