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

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 26, 2015

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

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 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. And they are using long-established approaches such as sharing data, online standards and templates, and using teams that map processes. Knowledge work redesign.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

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

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. It needed to invest in new development labs and to co-locate teams. They introduced a new cross-functional team structure for improvement — the "Big Room." from an Asian contractor.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 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

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud.

Call Center 12

Call Center Offshoring Charisma Video 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. Testing in these cases was not previously possible due to the cost of an on-site operator. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs. Existing investors and new investors contributed another $1 million.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. ” Another benefit is that the sensors are located at a distance and are detached from the monitored equipment so do not interfere with on-going operations or processes. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These are issues which every company with potentially catastrophic processes, products, or plants needs to answer with a special team of "worst case" analysts. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable. Such analysis then has to be transformed into a response plan. Heineman, Jr.,

Crisis Management 15

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

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 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8