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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

In a few years’ time, it may be on equal footing with gas in terms of competitiveness. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. Investors will certainly look to this frontier of innovation to find companies with profit potential.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. For our manufacturing organization mentioned above, what value is there in pursuing next practice innovation in their payroll process?

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Emerging-Market Engineers Power Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. It makes price movements less extreme but also more difficult to predict.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. “Don’t send only ‘undesirable’ work like porting or testing offshore.

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. Many were due to increased imports and offshoring to low-cost locations.

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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Much of the strategic cash is typically held outside the United States.

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