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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Partnering to venture jointly Here the borders blur further, as independent organizations partner to design, develop, and/or market particular products and services. Offering a platform for others The opposite of outsourcing is a kind of insourcing: an organization sets itself up as a platform for the particular use of outsiders.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. With leadership engagement and support, this system will thrive.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them.