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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

Outsourced manufacturing companies can provide solutions with short-term projects and long-term engagements depending on your business needs. This means that they can get your product to market faster than if you were to try and do it yourself. Project Management. This saves time when trying to schedule and organize a project.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. It requires new modes of operation.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. implement frequent, rapid, project-specific evaluations instead of annual performance reviews).

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business Review

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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How to Prioritize Your Company’s Projects

Harvard Business Review

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. Behind that problem was a deeper one: We had more than 100 large projects (each worth over 500,000 euros) under way.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. After three years of work, the project was abandoned after missing several milestones. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.