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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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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturing and Insourcing. Obama mentioned a trend toward “insourcing” — the return of manufacturing jobs from abroad — and vowed to promote advanced manufacturing via four new manufacturing “institutes.” ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, did it. Similar to health systems across the country, during the financial crisis Banner experienced substantial declines in patient volume and reductions in reimbursements amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

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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. Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. Our educational system, family, societal status, etc indoctrinates biases).

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. We decided we wouldn’t hire people for some other skills, such as systems integration and change management, and would use partners for that, instead.” ” Hiring for Growth.