Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

At the end of their shift, a team of software engineers in Boston can transfer the work where they left off (“asynchronically”) to another team in Bangalore, within or outside their own company, which continues the work until, at the end of their shift, they transfer it back — all with remarkable seamlessness. Structuring in Sevens.

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Organization Outsourcing Mintzberg Core Competence 233

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. Leadership behavior that exemplifies, recognizes and rewards the right behaviors. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Next, the 10-member senior leadership team used a variety of means, such as town halls, and videos of executives explaining the plan, to clearly and repeatedly communicate the urgent need for cost reduction as a requirement for process redesign across the system that would ultimately improve patient care. Walk the talk.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8