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A Visa for Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

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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. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Are You Prepared for the Unintended Consequences of Cloud Computing?

Harvard Business Review

Reflect for a moment, what would happen if sensitive informationinformation about personnel evaluations, trade secrets, closed negotiations, pricing, whatever — went viral like Miss Owens's PowerPoint, or was broadcast by Wikileaks and eagerly snapped up by news organizations?

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Robots Are Starting to Make Offshoring Less Attractive

Harvard Business Review

This new wave of bringing production back home through robotics automation may be the single biggest disruptive threat to India’s $118 billion information technology industry. The more processes can be automated, the less it makes sense to outsource activities to countries where labor is less expensive.

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Is Digitization Abetting the Jobless Recovery?

Harvard Business Review

These include continued stagnation in the construction and finance industries (which employed so many people when times were better), globalization and outsourcing, and the fact that job growth almost always lags other measures of health as an economy emerges from recession. A great many reasons have been offered for the jobless recovery.