Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

The industry will harness the power of growth catalysts to stay ahead of the curve. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. They span the globe and power the modern infrastructure of travel and commerce. They will continue to propel global travel and commerce. Still Keeping the Lights On.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

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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Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

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

JUNE 8, 2015

By analyzing the data it is possible to pursue the ‘power of one percent’, a GE term which states that efficiencies of only one percent can make a dramatic impact across the $32.3 trillion of relevant sectors. It also means that experts can be consulted remotely from anywhere around the world, as required. oil-and-gas.

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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. million, were the largest in U.S.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

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. Oh, and what about development methodology? The Downside of Best Practices by @mikemyatt [.]

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 313

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop offshore oil drilling for very long, and didn't produce the political will to push for alternative energy sources. This makes an enormous amount of computing power available to individuals and small businesses and continues the importance of apps that can be accessed directly.

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Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The United States pioneered the concept of contract manufacturing organizations in the 1980s when Japan was a fearsome economic power and Western companies were realizing they could no longer rely on the vertically integrated production philosophy that dated to Henry Ford. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S.

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Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On a trip to South America last fall, for instance, I recall talking to people in the oil industry about a complicated offshore drilling project. A few months before that, I'd visited a once-powerful European country that has fallen on hard times. Until recently, only U.S.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

The goal is to fully leverage the power of Amazon EC2 kind of infrastructure to help with scaling when we start seeing an eyeball-explosion. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Then it hired a company called Modern Analytics that specializes in autonomous analytics, or what it calls the “Model Factory.”

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

But nuclear power is now being taken seriously again. More recently, however, some high-profile environmentally-minded people, such as Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand , have been promoting nuclear power, mainly because it might hold the promise of fighting climate change (since it produces virtually no carbon emissions).

Energy 15

Energy Transportation Offshoring Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

“In some offshore wind applications, changing the main bearing on a turbine is so expensive that it undermines the business case for building the turbine in the first place,” said Filippo Zingariello, director of global strategic development at SKF.

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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. Service at this level is a powerful differentiator. They should reduce the experiential gap between employees and customers.

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Call Center Offshoring Policies System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The Economist recently detailed the ways in which our rapidly shifting professional landscape — the disruptive power of automation, the increasing number of jobs requiring expertise in coding — necessitates that workers focus continually on mastering new technologies and skills. Learning is positive for health.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

The old banking order is failing in Africa and central banks are losing their powers with all the disintermediation. This is critical because a future where blockchain usurps central banks by eliminating clearing houses and citizens do business locally but bank offshore , only innovation will guarantee survival. Innovate ferociously.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

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. (On the Gini scale , 100 would be complete inequality while 0 would be complete equality). But coincidence in time is not enough.

Globalization 8

Globalization Class Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

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. While RPA may not be as dramatic a technology advance as those other examples, it does have the potential to power new process designs. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Much has been made of this software-powered “hardware renaissance,” particularly as it has spawned a vibrant local “maker movement” and hardware hobbyist community. But the locus and scale of this activity is now changing. Such an age could be beneficial for the U.S. Beyond that, this surge could help cities.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. More power! The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Give the courts the power to shut down networks assembled for cybercrime such as those involved in “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attacks. There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Companies will experience huge changes as physical infrastructure disappears, offshore capabilities are repatriated, more services become self-service and virtual, and customers begin to interact more with robots. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Nevertheless, Time asserted, “the majority” of businessmen in the Eisenhower era had come to realize that government “welfare programs help store up purchasing power in the hands of the consumer.”. Companies practicing what was once called “welfare capitalism”—not the welfare state—would meet the bulk of their needs. Freeman Jr.,

Public Relations 9

Public Relations Offshoring Magazine Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Offshoring manufacturing and design. Furthermore, in the future, we will need to build software-based applications to enable the efficient and reliable operation of physical systems such as pumps, motors, waste water systems, water distribution systems, and the power grid. Data storage was very tangible.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The initial power loom—one of the transformative technologies of the Industrial Revolution—automated weaving tasks, allowing a weaver to produce twice as much cloth per hour. Moreover, employers paid these workers well at a time when unions had little power. However, this process took a long time.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

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

JUNE 5, 2014

The head of the fourth biggest and fastest rising political party in the world’s second most powerful economy is a racist. play by different rules (do tax laws really matter if your assets are all offshore?), The world’s largest democracy proudly elects a man who rode a wave of religious extremism.

Politics 8

Politics Offshoring Globalization Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

industries: 35 advanced manufacturing industries such as automotive and aerospace manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors; three energy industries including electric power generation; and 12 service industries, from software design to telecommunications. Applying this standard, we identified 50 U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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. For the government to help make more debt available, the most powerful policy tool is loan guarantees. Providing a guarantee verses a direct loan has a number of advantages.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. For example, France used a combination of national public policy and procurement to build a world-class nuclear power industry. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

Think how powerful it can be to include all your employees in problem solving and to use all the approaches! "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro.

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Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

A more immediate solution, I believe, is to be found in a group coaching intervention, because an experienced coach can use the group context to leverage powerful (conscious and unconscious) psychological dynamics to trigger change almost immediately, like understanding, catharsis, and peer support. Let me give you an example.

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360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. We estimated that renewables could jump from 4% of global power generation today to as much as 36% by 2035 in our accelerated technology scenario.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

This could describe the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its six reactors. Planning for the possibility of a severe earthquake and a subsequent tsunami were part of Japanese reliance on nuclear power. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.

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Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. This is because the internet ….

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Organizations looking to create revenue from digital technology need a strategy that is more powerful than digital substitution. That experience formed a simple, yet powerful, goal: Zero tolerance for lines. "If They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. A system power trip resulted in active magnetic bearings momentarily losing control of the compressor shaft and contact with the landing bearings. “Water is a very good medium for propagation of sound waves.

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Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8