The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

has the high-skill talent it needs, nor does it have the capacity to train enough people with those skills,” they write. “Without a substantial change in our approach, this deficit of skills in key fields will hinder economic growth.” “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

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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Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A new paper from Wharton explores whether excessive immigration restrictions actually force companies to take work elsewhere and offshore to another country entirely. companies to offer temporary employment to highly skilled foreign workers. Collective goals.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. This will prompt them to outsource employees who are technologically-skilled. These tasks include arranging schedules, finalizing meetings, and qualifying clients, among others. The Cloud Effect. As we mentioned earlier, more companies are opening up to cloud services.

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Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

There are offshore markets to explore too. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower. Resource Management – Value of Effective Resource Management. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 10 – Future Focus.

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

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. Despite these efforts, senior managers and HR officers in both companies reported that one in three women engineers continued to leave. vgajic/Getty Images. You can’t do anything wrong.

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Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

says that making short term cost-reduction the sole focus can’t be a long term strategy: “One must find the right balance between talent and skill versus cost.” Markarian states, “You need strong company managers to set up remote sites.” Iyer has managed the evolution of Indian talent for over two decades.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. Many were due to increased imports and offshoring to low-cost locations.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

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.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

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. It's tempting to concentrate on your core skills.

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

senators — seeks to increase the number of visas that the US government can grant highly-skilled workers (aka H1B visas), from 65,000 to around 110,000 a year, it is likely to constraint non-American companies operating in the US. Change management India Information & technology'

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Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

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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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

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.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 14

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. Be mindful of the critical skills you need to retain, and the skills you need to build up.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

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. If your company already has some analytical skills, it may be able to do machine learning models by itself. First of all, your analytics experts are going to need some new skills.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Both then and now, in order to implement major new technologies, large numbers of people had to learn new skills and knowledge. But over the next century, weavers improved their skills and mechanics and managers made adaptations and improvements, generating a twenty-fold increase in output per hour.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work. In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation.

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Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. Within a decade, 80% of staff should be able to automate activities like customer onboarding, sales, support, and investment management. In most banks, inexperienced young managers are asked to handle digital products. Think about local needs. What works in U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill’s passion an his sales skills were clearly evident, but his presentation came across as a wannabe self-help guru more than a CEO of one of the world’s best software companies. Fear is dead as a management tool. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The best idea should win.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

These factors include China's rapidly rising labor costs, which we discussed in an earlier HBR blog ; the increased value of the yuan; the challenge of managing long-distance supply chains; the quality control concerns that continue to haunt many manufacturers that have offshored production; and the significantly higher productivity of U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. from offshore. from offshore. These are companies like Hooven-Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio which provides labels for Tide and Mr. Clean products.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Offshoring manufacturing and design. They achieved differentiation by adding software layers for management and application development, rather than by designing better hardware. In this expanded role for IT, how can we manage such physical systems without knowing how to design and manufacture them?

Engineering 9

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

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. But it takes too long for new work skills to become codified and for the education system to deliver them.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. It’s that the U.S. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

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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Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But to fully leverage IoT’s potential, manufacturers need to understand why they need to use IoT analytics and how to build infrastructure and skills, identify the information needs, and start converting data into meaningful insights and foresights.

Content 8

Content Tools Offshoring Analysis 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New research from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management sets out to explore the relationship between fears we have about automation, and attitudes towards immigrants. It perhaps seems natural, therefore, for those people to also oppose automation, which may have a similar impact. Unfounded fears.

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Restructuring Offshoring Politics Technology 129

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. As for global corporations themselves, very few invested in upgrading their manufacturing plants and their employee skills in the way that German corporations have done through the 21st century. But we never ask value for whom? Now that game is over.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

This is partly due to the fact that 77% of CEOs report being concerned about the availability of key skills, according to PwC. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g.

Metrics 14

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The manufacturing sector as a whole has added roughly a half million jobs since the recovery — but all for highly skilled, technical, and managerial people. Plus, the trade-weighted value of the U.S. For instance, Walmart currently has an effort to add $50 billion in U.S.-made made products over the next 10 years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

I asked, “How will we manage the transition to new types of work and a new knowledge base for the economy?” We’ve already seen knowledge work such as accounting and legal services being shipped offshore to cheaper employees. . “Dislocations in labor markets, with old industries and jobs disappearing.”

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Effective risk management requires business leaders to attend to these nonmarket threats and to develop nonmarket strategies.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10