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 234

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 292

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams. The development team was extremely cohesive.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. Don’t tell people that the answer lies in insourcing or outsourcing or technology or big data or acquisitions or divestitures… Let them conclude for themselves what the answers are, having explored your broad question, from the universe of possibilities you open to them.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 71

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? Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. General Electric turns out to be an excellent case in point. ” Integrating with the Mother Ship.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8