Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

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. Affiliating is similar to creating a platform, except that here the users do so for themselves. Outsourcing has long been prominent in government, if not by that name.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 22, 2012

I’ve been thinking about the 2 nd , 3 rd order effects of outsourcing, especially now that some companies are either doing or seriously considering insourcing. I agree with many who believe we learn by doing. Perhaps because they learned to? So, have you tried to quantify your ‘learning by doing’?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. So, how did GE do it? everyone met to review the prior day, and what they would do that day. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story. But these suppliers became competitors and ever-harder to work with.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Contrast that with complicated challenges which are the domain of the expert: a known solution exists, and it can be reliably and successfully applied as needed by someone who knows what they’re doing. You are looking for a great dialogue, and you need to challenge your group to do better than they normally do in finding answers.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Kevin responded to that comment by saying he doesn’t read for gender, he reads for content.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

California courts have been so adamant about enforcing the state’s prohibition of non-competes, they’ve held that companies who do not hire or promote talented employees who refuse to sign a non-compete (which would be void anyway if taken to court) are liable in tort and should be subject to punitive damages.

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