First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 4, 2014

Actually, there are three: o In person, fireworks launched from a barge offshore Martha’s Vineyard o Also in person, following Arthur Fiedler’s last performance with the Boston Pops in a park along the Charles River on July 4, 1976 o A fireworks display filmed in China To see the display in China, please click here. […]. bobmorris Arthur Fiedler''s last performance with the Boston Pops offshore Oak Bluffs on Martha''s Vineyard The best fireworks display I have ever seen

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Similarly, companies must be more forceful in explaining the uses of revenues and margins derived from offshoring/outsourcing's competitive cost structures and local appeal.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 24, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the […].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 30, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior leaders in organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to nonprofit associations. A graduate of the [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Forward-looking companies see outsourcing and offshoring as tools to achieve strategic objectives such as scale, flexibility, and access to talent, resources and new markets — not just lower costs. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

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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. Nearly 65% of them indicated their intent to increase the scale of their offshore operations by 15% in the next two to three years.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore tax havens. It’s being billed as possibly the “largest journalism collaboration in history.” For the past 15 months, nearly 100 reporters from media outlets around the world, working in collaboration with the International Center for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), have analyzed about 2.5 The effort aimed to expose the “hidden dealings of politicians, con artists, and the mega-rich in more than 170 countries.”.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create. Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

If there is a trend to moving offshore then there are markets for things like ESL, accent correction, communication process and systems. Moving offshore would need to be done efficiently so a focus on making it frictionless. I continue to blog at # WIF11. S.Kishnan was the first speaker. He is the author of The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks. His view is the increasing communication is changing the way innovation happens.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 21, 2011

GPP prides themselves on producing and procuring the highest quality precision machined products through their domestic facilities and offshore joint ventures. Global Precision Parts (GPP) was established in 2006 as a combination of 3 manufacturing companies located in Ottoville and East Liberty, Ohio and Wabash, Indiana.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Guest post from Angela Sebaly: A recent Harvard Business Review article examined Shell Corporation’s adoption of an 18-month program designed to help the company’s offshore workers give and receive feedback before their upcoming deployment.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create. Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. More than 20 years ago I coined the term “ next” practices in an effort to focus people forward in their thinking.

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Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8%

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 2, 2013

She was struck by their ability to execute a seamless recovery: “The first offshore race I did with the Ramblers lit a fire as to why I wanted to join them as a team member. The following is a guest piece by author Dennis N.T. Perkins and Jillian B. Murphy.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

There are offshore markets to explore too. One of the major problems faced by business owners all over the world is knowing when to let go. There are plenty of reasons why.

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HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline. The use of automation technology is rapidly changing the landscape of various industries, mostly in the labor-intensive sectors.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2017

CFS International Formations offer a trademark search on their website for those interested in offshore company formation. Starting a company will never be easy, especially if you are new to the business scene.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Since they were first published on April 3, the Panama Papers have thrust a spotlight onto world politicians, celebrities, and businesses sheltering money offshore. It also created an academic windfall: the opportunity to study the real financial impact of offshore vehicles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2019

When customers don’t see the work that’s being done in back offices, offshore factories, and algorithms, they’re less satisfied with their purchases. Ryan Buell, associate professor at Harvard Business School, says the never-ending quest for operational efficiency is having unintended consequences. Buell believes organizations should deliberately design windows into and out of operations.

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Survive Your Promotion

APRIL 12, 2010

On the first night of the race, three of the crew members were hunched over a chart debating the relative merits of taking a tack offshore. Survive Your Promotion!

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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.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

continues to lose manufacturing jobs to offshore plants, but those losses are now being offset by inflows. Over the past four years, companies have created more than 80,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. by moving production to America from abroad, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites figures from the nonprofit Reshoring Initiative. The U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China. “Don’t send only ‘undesirable’ work like porting or testing offshore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Large arrays of offshore wind turbines, although expensive to build, could take enough energy out of the wind to break the “feedback loop” of wind speed and wave heights that makes hurricanes so destructive, the scientists say.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Swiss bank deposits owned by EU residents declined by 30% to 40% relative to other Swiss bank deposits in the two quarters immediately before and after the tax was introduced, with much of the money going to accounts in offshore centers such as Panama and Macau, Johannesen says.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

BP has deployed GE’s System1TM and SmartSignalTM software across a number of its offshore production facilities located in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, along with other key oil and gas areas such as Gulf of Mexico, Caspian Sea and Angola.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Major oil and gas producers are now trying to apply lessons from the shale revolution’s use of cutting-edge technologies to reduce development cycle times and costs for offshore conventional oil projects by about 40-50%. Major players are also optimizing their field development plans by tapping into new production data streams and developing three dimensional digital models of their massive offshore platforms. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. Many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Because of advancing technology, disappearing cultural barriers, and greater business expertise among offshore talent, many companies are using offshore partners for both types of work, allowing them to source the best expertise while reducing long-term costs.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project. The company was heavily committed to its offshore energy project, making it necessary to meet specific deadlines — and pressures were mounting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus. It is March 20, 2003, a few miles off the coast of Iraq's Al Faw Peninsula.

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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. In light of today's economic volatility and uncertainty every aspect of business is being re-examined for its value in creating and sustaining profitable growth.

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