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 success is an example of how, when properly applied and executed, HR can have a significant and measurable impact on a company.

Offshoring 16

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 16

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. If that sounds simple, it's anything but. I can't build your own rocketship for you, nor can I take your quantum leap.

GDP 22

GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 22

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. Continuous improvement is how they address the slings and arrows the market throws at them.

Process 18

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

As an example, a recent job posting on the website of a global healthcare company seeks an individual for a sales operations leadership position who can do the following: Strategy: •Contribute to the 1- and 3-year business vision as a member of the executive leadership team.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Do you really want to financially incentivize your executives to make hiring decisions that place a greater value upon diversity mandates than qualifications?

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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. ” Senior executive presence and travel across sites is an important part of integrating teams. .”

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building. After years of investing in "transformation" programs, executives understandably are reluctant to engage in strategies that go beyond specific, measurable and achievable point solutions.

IT Strategy 13

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? They create new products and services for customers.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 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.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. First off, if the company doesn''t have a CSO and the chief executive thinks the "S" has something to do with sustainability, just fire him. Intruders can enter, execute random violence, extract data, and exit a system in under seven seconds.

CEO 10

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The EFV represents a hypothetical “before the fact” calculation of what a CEO might eventually gain upon cashing in the stock options and stock awards that make up the overwhelming majority of most top executives’ pay.

CEO 8

CEO Black-Scholes Price Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company needed to target sales and marketing approaches to each company and potential buyer. To do this, it created a score for each customer executive, reflecting their propensity and ability to buy the company’s offerings, so that sales and marketing approaches could be more effective.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

The study, which focused on large companies with more than $500 million in revenues, also involved in-depth interviews with high-level executives about the factors driving their decisions on where to locate their manufacturing. particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. So the picture is truly nuanced.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. The union acted as a second set of leaders to help execute and reinforce changes. The union president echoed the same message.

Insourcing 10

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Nothing has changed in most African banks in terms of structure, despite the avalanche of transformations in the market. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. What works in U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

So Bill, is the problem here — if there is a problem here — our corporate tax code or our corporate executives? The second source of revenue is trying to change the fact that corporations report large profits to the capital markets and relatively small profits to tax authorities. We have a dysfunctional tax code in the United States.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. especially in fast-growing foreign markets. for certain domestic markets due to rising costs abroad and labor productivity at home.) Business Purpose.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g. Going forward, the biggest question seems to be when Asian and emerging market cities will crack the overall top 10 (Singapore ranks #14), though it’s entirely likely.

Metrics 15

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Given that the offshore stash is believed to total more than $2 trillion, advocates for a tax holiday claim that this influx will encourage companies to invest in their businesses, thereby creating millions of new jobs. To minimize this risk, companies should compare their expectations against the market’s.

EPS 8

EPS Company Offshoring Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Western business people are ensnared in low-level court proceedings in China far more regularly than is reported in the West, the risk remains low of a retaliatory move against a Western executive of similar status to Meng. Add to this the current trade tensions between the U.S. technology company needs. Vietnam straddles the two.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8