Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”. I wonder why?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. But suddenly, the case for outsourcing isn't so clear. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Outsourcing must be part of a larger global strategy. These and other factors like quality concerns, the weakening U.S.

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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.

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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. Best practice for them is to outsource to manufacturing partners who can do the job. But manufacturing?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Outsourcing is the process in which a business will hire a third party to complete tasks that they do not want to complete themselves. If you are wondering why so many companies choose to outsource, look no further. Sometimes outsourcing is the only way a business will gain access to a particular type of service or resource.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The more processes can be automated, the less it makes sense to outsource activities to countries where labor is less expensive. In each of these cases, the combination of advances in robotics and automation and rising wages in developing countries has upended the promise of cost reductions through outsourcing.

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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. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Strategies that use both internal and external (outsourced) resources enable sales ops leaders to build and manage these diverse capabilities cost-effectively. Companies can also use outsourced resources to deliver many sales ops capabilities.

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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.

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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

APRIL 2, 2012

As a result, many companies cut costs in those areas, just as they outsourced manufacturing decades ago. Between 2007 and 2008, financial, information, and professional service jobs were outsourced at an average rate of 5.4% (PDF). John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3 to low-cost countries by 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

These include continued stagnation in the construction and finance industries (which employed so many people when times were better), globalization and outsourcing, and the fact that job growth almost always lags other measures of health as an economy emerges from recession. A great many reasons have been offered for the jobless recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In these days of temporary and consultant-heavy workforces, offshoring and outsourcing, a younger, technologically adept generation, and the plummeting cost of data storage, you would have to be pretty confident that you had an ace security team on the job to protect your sensitive data.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

For one recruitment-process-outsourcing client, consultants found that the existing process involved the same data being checked by several teams in different countries. The purpose was to address historic quality issues as work was offshored, but these steps became redundant with the certainty of accuracy that RPA brings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Second, there is also a plausible narrative that the roles played by imports from Asia, as well as by offshoring and foreign outsourcing, link the two developments. But coincidence in time is not enough.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Indeed, as one commentator put it, the guest list at this summit meeting represented "a who's who of outsourcing American jobs.". Perhaps the biggest job killer — and it's the greatest threat to the survival of America's once-vibrant middle class — is the systematic offshoring of our high-tech manufacturing capacity.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. The myth of the New Economy was that innovation would drive job growth, even as old industries and jobs were outsourced to India and China. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value. But we never ask value for whom?

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