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. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications. The company needed to target sales and marketing approaches to each company and potential buyer. There is still some human labor involved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. 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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. That’s where wage insurance comes in.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Nothing has changed in most African banks in terms of structure, despite the avalanche of transformations in the market. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. Data consolidation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Instead, the growing peer economy enables people to monetize skills and assets they already have. And job losses have come in two forms: globalization that led to offshoring and technological displacement. Economy Technology' Etsy and Shapeways have created handmade and fabrication marketplaces.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems. People and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. In fact, American companies often have a competitive advantage when it comes to producing technologically advanced, differentiated goods that require precision manufacturing and a high level of quality control. So the picture is truly nuanced. In the U.S.,

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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. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric.

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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. At least for the first while, while you get them skilled up to where they need to be. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. However, it can get quite expensive.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A common argument made by opponents to immigration is that migrants undercut the local labor market, making things harder for natives. They could do this either by restructuring and downsizing various departments, or by implementing new technology that automated many of the tasks currently performed by employees. Unfounded fears.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

First, let's make sure we're focused on the two biggest pressures on joblessness and job generation: the would-be new entrants — the 16- to 24-year-olds — lacking the necessary skills and experience to land gainful employment, and the post-55-year-old mature workers, intent on remaining in the labor market, or scrambling to get back in.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

As technology could do the job more cost effectively than even workers in cheaper locations abroad, it makes commercial sense to bring production nearer to the markets the products are ultimately sold in. There’s no real evidence that tariffs help the lot of those whose low-skilled work was originally offshored.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. technology company needs. Moving production nearer to those markets makes sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

“Dislocations in labor markets, with old industries and jobs disappearing.” ” In the book, I warned that technology might actually destroy more jobs than it was creating. It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves. Soon the work will stay here but be done by computers. Going Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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