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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

As an example, a recent job posting on the website of a global healthcare company seeks an individual for a sales operations leadership position who can do the following: Strategy: •Contribute to the 1- and 3-year business vision as a member of the executive leadership team.

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Leading Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

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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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

A recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute identified a series of these disruptive technologies—from advanced materials to big data—that the firm projects will transform how we do business and live our lives. Through its leadership the company is making the ideal of industry-led regional training consortia real.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. For each city or region the right mix of programs depends on what outcomes the leadership of that area is trying to achieve. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order.

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Sometimes Colleagues Are the Best Coaches

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Automation: A Potential Game Changer for Mining and Maritime Industry

HR Digest

The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline. The One Sea ecosystem project aims at introducing fully remotely-operated vessels in the next three years to operate autonomous commercial maritime vessels on the seas by 2025.