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. link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. But suddenly, the case for outsourcing isn't so clear. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Outsourcing must be part of a larger global strategy. These and other factors like quality concerns, the weakening U.S.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Outsourcing is the process in which a business will hire a third party to complete tasks that they do not want to complete themselves. If you are wondering why so many companies choose to outsource, look no further. Sometimes outsourcing is the only way a business will gain access to a particular type of service or resource.

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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. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

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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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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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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." Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when. Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. At a leading global logistics company, for example, the business rules in a claims process suggested that decisions on tolerances for refunds required the judgment of a manager.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The more processes can be automated, the less it makes sense to outsource activities to countries where labor is less expensive. In each of these cases, the combination of advances in robotics and automation and rising wages in developing countries has upended the promise of cost reductions through outsourcing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value.

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