N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. The second is the value of distributed leadership—a team culture that allows every person to provide direction when he or she has expertise that will help the team succeed.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 2, 2013

She was struck by their ability to execute a seamless recovery: “The first offshore race I did with the Ramblers lit a fire as to why I wanted to join them as a team member. Equipment had failed, crew members were all over the place, yet we all managed to pick ourselves up. The reaction from the crew was so fast, and so quick.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. When asked how satisfied they were with the overall performance of their offshore operations, 83% of them said that they were either satisfied or highly satisfied.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Despite these efforts, senior managers and HR officers in both companies reported that one in three women engineers continued to leave. These were typically described as invitations from managers or other high-status colleagues to stand in for them, assume higher-level responsibilities, and/or take on new, challenging areas of work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China. This model never lasts,” says Markarian.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

” Forty years later, the concept of sales operations or “sales ops” has become widely accepted as essential for effective sales management. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives. Can one person really handle all this?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These two unprecedented events are stark reminders that effective crisis management involving complex science and technology is wholly dependent on well-thought-out — and actively practiced — crisis response plans. government initially left many dimensions of crisis management and response to BP. Heineman, Jr.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project. Coaching Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

For some time now, it has been obvious that these companies will have to go beyond the offshoring model that served them well in the past and develop innovative new ones. Moreover, governments, concerned about job-creation, data-security, and user-privacy, are challenging the offshoring model.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. Making parts for an iPhone is a challenging mix of materials science, mechanical engineering, precision fabrication, and managing mind-boggling complexity in the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Because management and professional services have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, Sally thought her job and location were reasonably safe. Sally (name has been changed) was laid off six months ago.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Enron: A scholarly investigation into the problems that led to Enron's collapse pinpointed several "communication-based leader responsibilities" that senior managers failed to meet — responsibilities such as "communicating appropriate values" and "maintaining openness to signs of problems.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

While there is a lot of Hadoopalooza in the technology press about the tools for managing big data, and they are wonderful, it's also true that they are a) widely available, and b) mostly free. They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. An HBR Management Puzzle.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. But so much of leadership is the soft stuff; how do we adapt that to the new fragmented, anonymous workforce?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year. The lack of transparency from machine learning is one of the greatest cultural and leadership challenges to overcome with the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. So, how did GE do it?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Automation in Maritime industry is turning crew members into system managers. More people are becoming skeptical about choosing certain careers, while employers in some sectors are getting more assurance of not having to push so hard on talent management in the future. Automation in Maritime Industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

“What companies want is a leadership base that at least somewhat parallels their customer base. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g. ” Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers. Trump Shocked the World.

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