N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application? Moreover, if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced? Oh, and what about development methodology?

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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. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

In my work with SalesGlobe I’ve developed Sales Design Thinking SM to help sales leaders solve problems around any sales or business challenge, like sales strategy, organization design, sales capacity, sales compensation, change management, and of course quota setting. Develop Vertically. Manage Change. Manage Change.

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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. That’s because honest feedback is difficult -- even painful -- to give and to receive.

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Offshoring Chemicals Construction Benchmarking 151

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2024

This article explores the benefits of this strategic decision, particularly focusing on the advantages of remote and offshore teams. This global talent pool enables companies to find the right expertise for their specific needs, whether it’s software development, digital marketing, customer support, or any other function.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2021

They reduce the capital spent on storage, as they pay less in warehouse fees and the labor required to manage the storage. The funds saved in this area may be used for marketing, customer service, research and development, and more. In the past, electronic part production runs were handled offshore for a range of reasons.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Develop a Website. If all this is too much to handle, you can enroll a web developer instead of doing it yourself. Then, consider whether you want to locate your company in offshore countries or not, based on your government jurisdiction. App Developing : Are you a coder with a great new app idea? Legalize the Business.

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Affiliate Marketing How To SWOT Offshoring 70

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Developing economies are yet to reach their full appetite for fossil fuels. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. Still Keeping the Lights On.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 74

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Cheap, plentiful labor was readily available in developing countries like China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Not if you want to stay in the game.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. These companies will increase their spending on software development from 6% last year to 9% this year. You can expect to see new players for software development outsourcing. These tasks include arranging schedules, finalizing meetings, and qualifying clients, among others.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad. They can also look into developing the business in new areas and grow the business from there. Global Knowledge.

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Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

In developed economies, they have even sparked a trend toward the return of jobs from overseas, or “botsourcing.” 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

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Located at the home office, she developed long-term relationship with her clients. You might think you are immune to this shift if you are a manager, but that's not the case. Find a market niche.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Despite these efforts, senior managers and HR officers in both companies reported that one in three women engineers continued to leave. These were typically described as invitations from managers or other high-status colleagues to stand in for them, assume higher-level responsibilities, and/or take on new, challenging areas of work.

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Engineering Management Learning-by-Doing Offshoring 15

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

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future. When R&D and Manufacturing Must Be Near. to Asia.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

” Forty years later, the concept of sales operations or “sales ops” has become widely accepted as essential for effective sales management. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when. 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.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project. Coaching Managing people'

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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. This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. Markarian states, “You need strong company managers to set up remote sites.”

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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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Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 9

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Offshoring manufacturing and design. They achieved differentiation by adding software layers for management and application development, rather than by designing better hardware. In this expanded role for IT, how can we manage such physical systems without knowing how to design and manufacture them?

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Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

BP has deployed GE’s System1TM and SmartSignalTM software across a number of its offshore production facilities located in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, along with other key oil and gas areas such as Gulf of Mexico, Caspian Sea and Angola.

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Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

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. It doesn’t ask whether we need to do this activity at all.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 17

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. In the search for blame, many commentators point to the absence of building codes, lack of workplace safety rules, and the greed of US corporations.

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Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 11

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. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. The development team was extremely cohesive.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. Even when an organization has a robust pipeline of growth ideas and manages to keep many of them alive, it may lack the human capital needed to accelerate growth. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. The listening ‘ear’, an array of sensors in a 500-pound ‘birdcage’ dome that sits on the sea floor or on subsea equipment, was developed at the GE Measurement and Control site in Bergen, Norway.

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Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win.

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Technology Resources Industry Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. .” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Tech titans such as Google and Amazon are working to connect more and more types of objects to the web by offering mobile interfaces for managing just about anything. SKF now provides 45 different iPad apps so managers can monitor the maintenance, speed, and reliability of up to 8,000 kinds of smart objects. That lag poses dangers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. To that end, managers should develop a list of 10 to 15 processes that bots can quickly improve.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Books, online courses, MOOCs, professional development programs, podcasts, and other resources have never been more abundant or accessible, making it easier than ever to make a habit of lifelong learning. Every day, each of us is offered the opportunity to pursue intellectual development in ways that are tailored to our learning style.

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