The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Rather than those jobs going to un- or under-employed locals, the jobs often get offshored to places where the talent exists. These mechanisms underpin the value co-nationals can bring to a business when operating overseas, whether in terms of consuming one’s products or working for the company.

Offshoring 86

Offshoring Bond Brand Reference 86

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, pipe bending plays an essential role in manufacturing products for use across a wide variety of industries. Whether fuel suppliers plan to drill offshore or at mainland oil rigs, they need to work with a metal fabricator capable of bending heavy-duty, corrosion-resistant pipes that will withstand the test of time.

Industry 112

Industry Automotive Offshoring Transportation 112

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Cardinal Health: The global pharmaceutical distributor and medical products supplier sent a memo to U.S. It will also require offshore workers in the Gulf of Mexico and some offshore support staff to be vaccinated by Nov. Hess: Oil producer Hess is requiring all offshore workers to be vaccinated before Nov.

Company 98

Company Offshoring Airlines Banking 98

N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? It has been my experience whenever methodologies become productized, objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution, I suggest you exercise caution.

Benchmarking 160

Benchmarking Outsourcing Offshoring Fashion 160

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2023

This would necessitate a significant increase in the use of renewable energy, particularly for fuel production, which is already challenging to accomplish with current energy consumption levels. “This puts additional pressure on the already ambitious plans to produce half of Europe’s electricity from wind energy by midcentury.”

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Travel Energy Policies 52

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Guest post from Angela Sebaly: A recent Harvard Business Review article examined Shell Corporation’s adoption of an 18-month program designed to help the company’s offshore workers give and receive feedback before their upcoming deployment. Efficiency and reliability exceeded the industry's previous benchmark.

Offshoring 151

Offshoring Chemicals Construction Benchmarking 151

Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

Only 3 Fortune 500 companies have women who hold more than 40% percent of the board seats (Avon Products, Estée Lauder, and Macy’s). 6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. The report also states that in 2010 the number of women on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies dropped by 0.6% to 16 percent. of board chairmanships.

P&L 209

P&L Company Offshoring Diversity 209

Six Disciplines

APRIL 21, 2011

GPP prides themselves on producing and procuring the highest quality precision machined products through their domestic facilities and offshore joint ventures. GPP supports their customer needs by offering prototyping, short-run and high-volume requirements.

GPP 101

GPP Globalization Offshoring Quality 101

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This is the perfect online representation of your products, services, and brand. Then, consider whether you want to locate your company in offshore countries or not, based on your government jurisdiction. Pick a product niche and partner with platforms like Amazon and Etsy. Develop a Website.

Affiliate Marketing 74

Affiliate Marketing How To SWOT Offshoring 74

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. Rapidly-growing Asian economies need them to support their population and production boom. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. Hopefully, they will make production safer and environmentally-friendly too.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. This story is playing out in industry after industry.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

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. accounting, payroll) on dimensions such as cost, productivity, customer experience and ability to increase revenues, using our proprietary methodology, P360.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a concern that has manifested itself in a paper produced by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which both highlights the crucial role immigration grows in fueling productivity and economic growth, but also the risks of political short-termism resulting in this talent supply being shut down.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

These executives, bankers and hedge fund managers who took over the once proud manufacturing industry in America and broke it up, outsourced the work or shipped entire factories offshore for obscene profits while destroying the lives of millions of employees don’t need happy coaches. I wonder why? Military Gamification in Everything?

Organization 186

Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

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. It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation.

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

Offshoring 11

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

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. While you can start an offshore location with non-critical responsibilities, unless responsibilities move upstream, you risk attrition.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

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.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

by moving production to America from abroad, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cites figures from the nonprofit Reshoring Initiative. continues to lose manufacturing jobs to offshore plants, but those losses are now being offset by inflows.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Transportation Energy Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With energy demands rising and reserves of oil and gas becoming more challenging to access, the productivity revolution promoted by the Industrial Internet is of vital importance to the oil and gas sector. This is sponsor content – insight from GE. trillion of relevant sectors.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 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

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Working in these plants are inventive people who are the source of important ideas for making products better or in different ways. This is why I cringe when I see pharmaceutical makers shipping more and more of their production and development capability offshore, or when I see semiconductor tool makers move their manufacturing from the U.S.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's a private, independent company in the Chicago area that handles biopharma production for a number of partners. Hospira began life when Abbott Laboratories spun off its production division, and it is now the world leader in the production of injectable pharmaceuticals. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S.

Contract Manufacturing 9

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 9

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. But the iPad represented more than just an extremely successful product launch. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S.

Technology 15

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss. (When you get a new job, you lose your unemployment checks, creating a disincentive to find work.).

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

This dynamic is exacerbated by product companies’ historical service paradigm. Now, however, our interaction with devices is profoundly changing – they are becoming more like interconnected services than products. In a sense I’d like to “forget” that the product exists and move on to my next sale.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Self-aware Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. His secret was mass production in a “focused factory,” using interchangeable parts, specialization, and the assembly line. The same can be said of other procedures that might lend themselves to mass or lean production.

Health Care 9

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. 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.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline. But organizations continue to use information technology to r edesign work across organizational and global boundaries.

Process 16

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And it has the potential to make human analysts wildly more productive. The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

So far, much of the attention around smart, connected products has been around consumer-facing goods like watches and thermostats. 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. That lag poses dangers.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Increasingly, executing that capability will be dependent on a new species of talent with deep technical skills to integrate local realities into products. Most banks still require their customers to have multiple accounts to access different products in their channels — different accounts for mortgages, loans, savings, and more.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

According to an in-depth account of why Nokia has "struggle[d] to turn its good ideas into products," much of the problem stems from habits of communication that favor unfocused discussions about strategy over clear plans to bring new phone models to market.

Company 16

Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world.

Business Model 9

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 9

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

Diversity 296

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

This shifts knowledge work from a craft into a knowledge production system. We've known for a decade or more that this shift to more production-engineered knowledge work was underway. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. to low-cost countries by 2015.

Marketing 17

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 17