N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Brand new research conducted just last year by multiple teams of economists confirmed what many entrepreneurs such as myself had long suspected: startup businesses are responsible for all of America's new job growth. Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Actually, we can.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

For one recruitment-process-outsourcing client, consultants found that the existing process involved the same data being checked by several teams in different countries. The purpose was to address historic quality issues as work was offshored, but these steps became redundant with the certainty of accuracy that RPA brings.

Process 12

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work. Have you ever worked with a team of friends or colleagues to master difficult material or create something new?

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit. The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In these days of temporary and consultant-heavy workforces, offshoring and outsourcing, a younger, technologically adept generation, and the plummeting cost of data storage, you would have to be pretty confident that you had an ace security team on the job to protect your sensitive data.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Outsourcing Information Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. But it’s not good at innovation. The other economy—the Creative Economy—is an economy of continuous innovation and transformation.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

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.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

This resulted in a boost for the high-skilled workers who tend to work alongside such technology, but no such dividend for the lower-skilled workers whose jobs had ultimately been offshored in the first place. There’s no real evidence that tariffs help the lot of those whose low-skilled work was originally offshored.

Offshoring 62

Offshoring Short-term Long-term Policies 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8