Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. 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.”

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

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

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. India''s hi-tech giants clearly need to reinvent themselves.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. They then must help define the support they need and ways to develop their skills. Knowledge work redesign.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. 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. Sponsored by SAS.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Making autos was a craft, and very few people were skilled enough to put one together. He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. Doctors focus their time on diagnosis and the most intricate aspects of surgery, while less-skilled paramedics take care of everything else. Why can’t U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

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.

Finance 10

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Increasingly, executing that capability will be dependent on a new species of talent with deep technical skills to integrate local realities into products. Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. Think about local needs.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to. Offshoring manufacturing and design. In our "software and sheet metal" age, the knowledge of hardware design and operation must now exist at a system level.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

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. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 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. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

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

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.

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

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?

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

By using readily available computations of vast amounts of data, a manufacturer can leverage analytics to generate real-time insights to understand the needs of end consumers and product performance under a myriad of operating conditions.

Content 8

Content Tools Offshoring Analysis 8

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. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. China has accumulated a vast manufacturing ecosystem servicing foreign companies, encompassing everything from hard infrastructure to soft skills. technology company needs.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

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. He has two levels to operate on: first, directly influencing corporate investment and buying decisions, and second, diplomatic engagement with trading partners.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve already seen knowledge work such as accounting and legal services being shipped offshore to cheaper employees. For example, IBM’s Watson computer diagnoses cancers with much higher levels of speed and accuracy than skilled physicians do. Soon the work will stay here but be done by computers.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8