CEO Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

If there is a trend to moving offshore then there are markets for things like ESL, accent correction, communication process and systems. Moving offshore would need to be done efficiently so a focus on making it frictionless. I see increased energy costs so anything physical that needs shipping will be more expensive.

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Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. Flir Systems, Wilsonville, OR. Cintas, Cincinnati, OH. 5. Denbury Resources, Plano, TX. 7. Discovery Communications, Silver Spring, MD. 8. EOG Resources, Houston, TX. 9. Federated Investors, Pittsburgh, PA. Fidelity National Information Services, Jacksonville, FL.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. Control of work will optimize management systems and help organizations overcome operational hiccups. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. They will continue to incorporate cloud-based systems to expand their reach without physically going out in the field. As we mentioned earlier, more companies are opening up to cloud services. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

Political, social and economic cultures that have been sustained for long periods of time have these values and systems that don’t (i.e. coercive utopian systems such as communism and fascism), fail because the values they promote work against human flourishing. I wonder why?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

Let’s say your current in-house software system is bogging down from a recent influx of customers. There are offshore markets to explore too. Specialist companies will have a much deeper understanding of their industry than you can expect your employees to have.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

The Industrial Internet drives improved business outcomes for customers by harvesting the vast quantities of data produced by the GE machines they have installed, such as jet engines and MRI scanners, and feeding this into advanced analytical systems. trillion of relevant sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents.

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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. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. But manufacturing?

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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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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

•Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. Operations: Tasks such as administering quarterly incentive compensation plans or managing sales force automation systems require specific technical knowledge. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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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. Solving them will involve changes to our financial system, our innovation system, our education system, and our political system. Until recently, only U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

If that new job doesn’t pay as much, there should be a system of wage insurance in place so that he can still pay his bills.” In his final State of the Union address, President Obama announced his intention to strengthen and modernize the unemployment insurance system as part of a broader strategy to address economic insecurity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. RPA-based process design can restore some useful steps at little cost.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

The next time a customer service rep says, "The computer won't let me do that" or "The system tells me what to do," remember this: Behind every such phrase is a set of processes designed, or at least endorsed, not by computers but by human beings somewhere in the corporate hierarchy. Any chance of a dialogue vanishes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

tax laws change: Repatriating the cash from offshore would result in significant tax consequences under current U.S. Apple and lots of others, including President Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform back in 2005, have been arguing for a switch to a territorial tax system in which we don't even try to tax the overseas earnings of U.S.

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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. Both are using methods ("agile scrum ") that enable quick, small changes to systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

British Petroleum: The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, in April 2010, resulted in a massive crisis for BP and its partners. They put in place communication systems that promote dialogue , as opposed to monologue. They adopt communication methods that enable them to get closer to employees.

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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). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. ” So we have ended up with a system that creates “ownerless corporations.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

That understanding of why certain things happen in a given system, under given conditions, is equally necessary today, but over the last three decades, we have abstracted it away. The result is that now have a crucial gap in our systems, because we no longer fully understand how each component of the system works.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Soon it will be common to drive up to one’s house – which has adjusted heating or cooling in anticipation of your arrival — and have the garage door automatically open, the security system disarm, the doors unlock and lights come on. And once I resolve your issue — no offense — I hope I never hear from you again.

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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. Cisco Systems, for example, went from doing tens of artisanal propensity models to tens of thousands of autonomously generated ones.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Facilitate Acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

In countries where governments rarely know their citizens because there are few trusted identification systems, most African banks built their businesses on top of shaky data infrastructures. Such realignments could be catalytic in fending up the challenges from fintech competitors. Data consolidation. Think about local needs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

This shifts knowledge work from a craft into a knowledge production system. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3 million white collar jobs and $136 billion in wages will shift from the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

We’ve seen this before: a broken financial system that has created huge economic imbalances. After World War II proved him right — when not only Germany, but other economically gutted nations succumbed to nationalism and fascism — Keynes tried to design a new global financial system, creating the IMF and the World Bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. The GE team developed a purpose and nine guiding principles — the "Appliances Performance System."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today.

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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. Frankly, I'm all for letting the system be overrun by those who deserve to be there. Our educational system, family, societal status, etc indoctrinates biases).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. PG&E responded by developing the PowerPathway program , a partnership with local community college systems in selected U.S. Shoring up innovation and skills systems, however, is just the start.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Lending from Europe remained flat, and the gap was filled from elsewhere — largely Asian offshore centers and the U.K. Ensuring customer support through cutting-edge systems and IT will be critical, as will the ability to tap online, mobile, social, and analytic innovations. Filling the Gap.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. For example, a Fortune 100 beverage distributor uses TruTouch systems to screen truck drivers before and after shifts, and an oil and gas company tests employees prior to allowing them access to drilling rigs. manufacturing jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. Insecurity. Pointlessness.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

This enabled the intruders to open a breach into the system and gain an understanding of the acquisition strategy ahead of time. Just because you haven''t heard your C-suite peers at other firms talk of security breaches doesn''t mean they''re not happening, nor does the fact that you haven''t found anything in your systems mean you''re safe.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

Instead, why not build a far more distributed energy system? It's not too cheeky to point out that if a natural disaster causes an offshore wind turbine to fall, or a solar panel to rip off a house, there's no spill and limited danger. A spill of oil or nuclear radiation can affect millions of people.

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