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. We should celebrate the achievements of the process improvement approaches that emerged in the 1990s, what I call "Process Strategy 1.0".

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

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

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.

Diversity 296

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Industrial companies have tended to be among the last to create digital strategies that harness the new opportunities arising from the proliferation of smart products. Building an industrial internet strategy. Such challenges, he says, require industrial companies to take a fresh approach to strategy. New tools and strategies.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 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. Sponsored by Accenture.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Self-aware Operations 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. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Facilitate Acquisitions.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. Negotiation Strategies for Doctors — and Hospitals. Health India Operations Productivity' His secret was mass production in a “focused factory,” using interchangeable parts, specialization, and the assembly line. Yet, too much of U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Strategies for growth in a connected world. Insight Center.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date. As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything.

Process 12

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

With much of the corporate world's customer interactions handled by offshore call centers, reps are often incapable of relating to customers' needs. The Bank of Montreal Financial Group uses simulations and coaching to improve its call-center operations, and a similar strategy was adopted by Primera Therapeutics.

Call Center 13

Call Center Offshoring Policies System 13

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.

Blog 306

Blog Brand Media Influence 306

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Today, by contrast, GE does all it can to escape taxation, in large part through “ innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore ,” as the New York Times characterized it. And it is hardly alone. Zellerbach told the magazine.

Public Relations 9

Public Relations Offshoring Magazine Globalization 9

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

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. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background. Leverage technology from front to back.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

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

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The first reason that many companies decide to outsourcing is that the operational and labour costs are much cheaper than hiring an employee into the business. They won’t need to pay a full time employee, but they will still be able to have a professional, expert service. Global Knowledge.

Outsourcing 69

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 69

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. Consider how Barcelona, for example, systematically seeks innovative solutions from entrepreneurs: winning proposals receive guaranteed contracts, plus additional support like office space for their operations. Mind the Mittelstand.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. When capital costs are high, strategies that expand margins are almost always better than strategies that accelerate growth. Related Video.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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

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. This includes detailing the strategy, including the use of edge analytics.

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. Regaining an Innovation Surplus and reversing America's decline will take a generation in time and a sharp shift of economic strategy in policy making. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. But we never ask value for whom?

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

Robotic loaders and remotely-controlled trucks are significantly reducing operational costs in the mining sector. Mining companies are increasingly moving to the latest automation technology to modernize their operations. Automation in mining also handles increasing safety challenges associated with conventional operations.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

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. 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. Strategies for growth in a connected world. ” Have the operations of governments changed fundamentally in the past two decades? It appears that the biggest culprit is digital technologies themselves.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Nine big brands with operations in Ohio publicly pressed the state to reinstate energy efficiency and renewable energy portfolio standards. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. I do believe companies will expand their horizons, looking more at systems, not just their operations and value chains.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8