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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

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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In-House or Outsourced IT: Which Is Best for Your Business?

Strategy Driven

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? The insourcing or in-house team is a practice when the work and tasks are performed within the operational infrastructure of the company. In-house IT team: Benefits and Limitations.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

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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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Building a fence between your yard and a neighbor’s yard is a complicated challenge; building a great relationship with your neighbor is complex. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

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.