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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. consultants, etc.),

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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? Posting your comment.

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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.

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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. As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Croatia is a country of contrasts, with mountains and hills in the north and developed Adriatic coast home to thousands of dreamlike islands and lovely islets with the unspoiled authentic landscape. The lengthy, scooped-out shoreline with a number of lovely islands like Dugi Otok and Pašman offshore in the Adriatic.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2020

“Recent developments are placing additional stress on the U.S. Indeed, the policies are often prompting companies to offshore R&D facilities to countries where the brightest talent is rather than trying to attract that talent to the country.

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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

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. They reduce the capital spent on storage, as they pay less in warehouse fees and the labor required to manage the storage.

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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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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. Diversify.

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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. Still Keeping the Lights On. The industry will harness the power of growth catalysts to stay ahead of the curve. First of all, there are still untapped and undiscovered reserves out there.

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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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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 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.

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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

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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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

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. 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.

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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.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 16

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. Learning about new developments in your field will be more engaging than pounding the pavement for your old job. Find a market niche.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In many ways, the biggest business developments of 2010 were the things that didn't happen. 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. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

They must hire, develop, manage, and lead a team of people with diverse and specialized competencies who do fundamentally different jobs and likely have dissimilar career aspirations. Asking a process/detail expert to do the work of an analysis/design expert, or vice versa, is a recipe for disaster. What does this mean for sales ops leaders?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

A quick scan of the list indicates that all 100 organizations are located in developed countries. From this list, some readers may infer that innovation is largely the realm of engineers and scientists working in developed countries for large companies, assuming that innovators from countries such as India and China don''t matter after all.

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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. They then must help define the support they need and ways to develop their skills. Apple uses Foxconn to make iPads, iPhones, and iPads.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

By shifting much of their production to Asia, Western companies have also offshored critical aspects of innovation. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S. start-ups from developing and using production innovations such as integrated design that could have cemented a U.S. advantage for years to come.

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Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 13

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. “Don’t send only ‘undesirable’ work like porting or testing offshore.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Without those patents and the funding they attract, few start-ups can afford to hire the people they need to develop their new products, services and medical treatments for the public. Consider the case of Silicon Valley start-up Innate Immune, founded by world-renowned Stanford immunologist Sam Strober.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. TruTouch, based in the United States, has developed and is commercializing a sensor that instantly detects a person's blood-alcohol level with the touch of a finger. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

It developed my confidence so that I now think I can do higher-level work. Challenging and higher-level responsibilities not only helped women to develop confidence in their potential but also enhanced their social networks and profiles within the organization; women became more firmly embedded within their engineering community.

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Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 15

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 the 1980s, I designed large hard drives the size of washing machines that stored about 1000 MB of data on 14-inch disks. Data storage was very tangible.

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