Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. In this golden period, even an ill-conceived, poorly executed strategy could deliver big savings. In this golden period, even an ill-conceived, poorly executed strategy could deliver big savings. Outsourcing must be part of a larger global strategy.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. In 2020, the market grew to $180 billion. Experts also believe that the quantum computing market will reach a value of $8 billion globally by 2027. Telehealth Market to Make Waves. Also, the cloud computing industry will likely continue to grow.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

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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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. After all, an obvious alternative strategy if you can’t bring the talent to you, is to go where the talent is instead. Work to be done. Collective goals.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 52

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. The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company.

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Outsourcing Strategic Planning Offshoring Resources 50

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.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

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. Like most of us, you probably couldn't have anticipated how much it could impact local job markets. Find a market niche.

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 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.” Her vision is that if you invest in grooming budding leaders at offshore locations, you can permanently solve your cost and capacity problems in product development.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

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. First, they face many decisions.

Offshoring 10

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.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced his intention to strengthen and modernize the unemployment insurance system as part of a broader strategy to address economic insecurity. Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. That’s where wage insurance comes in.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

A leading mobile-phone maker falls out of step with its market — and struggles to catch up. But when the smartphone became the next big thing within the mobility market, the company lost its competitive edge. They rigorously pursue an agenda that aligns their communication efforts with organizational strategy.

Company 16

Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Strategic cash provides more flexibility concerning the timing and pricing of potential acquisitions; having cash on hand is the best insurance that CFOs will be able to respond with alacrity to opportunities and not be subject to the vagaries of the financial markets.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has served in the capacity of a senior executive who hasn't been party to these types of meetings, workshops, seminars, strategy sessions, etc.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents. Building an industrial internet strategy.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

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. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. But these things are not enough.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

” If the answer to both is “yes,” I will serve you as inexpensively as possible using techniques such as self-help on the web, endless IVR loops (“for billing questions, press 1”) and/or offshore labor. New tools and strategies. As such it needs to be a continuous, open ended experience. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Self-aware Operations 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Out of all the speakers on today’s agenda David is the one I’d be most interested in having dinner with. Looking to hire great leaders – hire one of our veterans. I found your Day 1 recap very informative.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. This enabled the intruders to open a breach into the system and gain an understanding of the acquisition strategy ahead of time. You''d want to make it count. Reports have also speculated that Coke''s $2.4 million, including $35.9

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Strategies for growth in a connected world. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value. given the nation’s advantages in creativity, software, and cloud-based business organization, even if much of the resulting new production winds up offshore. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Despite the recent slack in the job market, signs still point to a stubborn STEM skills gap. And yet, years of offshoring and industrial decline have hollowed out many of our manufacturing clusters: Since 1980, the number of metropolitan areas with more than 10% of their workforce in advanced industries has decreased from 59 to just 23.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. General Electric Operations Strategy' But these suppliers became competitors and ever-harder to work with.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad. Content Marketing. It saves people in the office being disturbed throughout the day with phone calls. Global Knowledge.

Outsourcing 69

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everyone thinks they have a digital strategy these days. But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Does your strategy capitalize on that?

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 10

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.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Mining automation market will reach $3.29 suggests that mining automation market could grow by almost 50% in the next 6 years to reach US$3.29 The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline. billion by 2023. MarketsandMarkets Inc. billion by 2023.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

AIRINC, a global research company which currently works with over half of the Fortune 100 on international talent and pay strategies, created an index that helps answer these questions. 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And even if they themselves were engineered to be simpatico, it is hard to imagine that radical increases in the offshoring of labor services would be viewed as a successful and therefore sustainable outcome in an era of so much concern about jobs. (Of But purely telematic interactions do sound a bit cold. “What, me worry?

Globalization 8

Globalization Offshoring Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets 8

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 Trump may have overpromised on bringing back jobs, but he does have some tools to work with as he tries to narrow the trade gap and create a strategy for China.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

“Dislocations in labor markets, with old industries and jobs disappearing.” We’ve already seen knowledge work such as accounting and legal services being shipped offshore to cheaper employees. Strategies for growth in a connected world. It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities. If we make it more the case that you have to base your taxes on profit reports to capital markets, that can raise a fair amount of revenue as well. The workers aren’t.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. He disparaged the “quarterly earnings hysteria” and asked companies to submit long-term strategy plans and address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. In a subtle tipping point, the total global generating capacity from renewables passed coal this year.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 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.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10