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. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Or that China surpassed the U.S.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

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. Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 293

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

We estimate that tens of thousands of engineers and scientists working for top innovators are actually located in their offshore technical centers in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China); these are often called "captive" R&D centers or offshore R&D locations. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession. As a result, many companies cut costs in those areas, just as they outsourced manufacturing decades ago. Find a market niche.

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

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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Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Strategies that use both internal and external (outsourced) resources enable sales ops leaders to build and manage these diverse capabilities cost-effectively. Many companies look for sales ops talent outside the immediate group by encouraging job rotations with other company departments, such as finance or marketing.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

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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Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring. Continuous improvement is how they address the slings and arrows the market throws at them.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Second, there is also a plausible narrative that the roles played by imports from Asia, as well as by offshoring and foreign outsourcing, link the two developments. On the Gini scale , 100 would be complete inequality while 0 would be complete equality). But coincidence in time is not enough.

Globalization 8

Globalization Class Offshoring Politics 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. especially in fast-growing foreign markets. for certain domestic markets due to rising costs abroad and labor productivity at home.) Business Purpose.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13