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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2020

Presently, IT businesses have a lot of requirements and various tasks to be done from design, content creation up to development, marketing, and administrative work. The main question is whether to hire a full-time in-house team or outsource and bring in the experts only when it’s necessary? That can be a costly affair.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." However they they proceed to argue for elimination of same. [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

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. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

But it’s less well known that efficiency is a problem for startups too, whose processes also become less flexible as they focus on efficiencies in their quest to move up market. Today, still under the marvelous management of Tony Hsieh, Zappos sales are well over $2 billion. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

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