N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

One of the most difficult areas for executives to wrap their mind around is how to unlearn legacy based thinking. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? One of the most common reasons for pursuing best practices in a given area is to avoid having to “reinvent the wheel.”

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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. Remember “smile or your fired”.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 24, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. A graduate of the […].

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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. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” That’s why I’m on a mission to share this skillset with sales executives. But asking each sales executive to reach out to sales managers over the company’s instant messaging platform could be a highly effective way to make the message stick.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 30, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. A graduate of the [.].

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whether fuel suppliers plan to drill offshore or at mainland oil rigs, they need to work with a metal fabricator capable of bending heavy-duty, corrosion-resistant pipes that will withstand the test of time. Find a Metal Machining Company That Can Do It All.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. In this golden period, even an ill-conceived, poorly executed strategy could deliver big savings. In this golden period, even an ill-conceived, poorly executed strategy could deliver big savings. But suddenly, the case for outsourcing isn't so clear.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

The same thing goes for 71% of financial service executives in the country. In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Furthermore, 70% of transportation and retail firms outsource portions of their services. Outsourcing Trends. The Cloud Effect.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

Source: "Execution--The Discipline Of Getting Things Done" Promote Shared Creativity With Your Employees As the book "The DNA Of Leadership" suggests, ask your employees: * How would you handle this? Be A Good Coach Coaching is the single most important part of expanding others capabilities.

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

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

It’s especially hard for senior executives, who have got where they are thanks to the way they behave. That’s why executives often engage the services of a coach. To help with the transition, and in particular with the project, the company hired two new executives. Let me give you an example. They distrusted each other.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore tax havens. We are talking about hundreds of jobs lost,” says the executive director of one of the organizations lobbying against the change. The proposed change would save millions, and would get food to the people who need it more quickly.

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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.

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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. CEO Ken Rees wrote to me that, "in an environment that's changing as quickly as ours, there are so many things to be worried about.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

With much of the corporate world's customer interactions handled by offshore call centers, reps are often incapable of relating to customers' needs. This goes for executives too, by the way — CXOs should make a regular habit of using their companies' customer service, just as a mere mortal would.

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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. Do you really want to financially incentivize your executives to make hiring decisions that place a greater value upon diversity mandates than qualifications?

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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. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The fact that many of the problems relating to crisis response and crisis management recurred in Japan, with the Gulf spill still freshly in mind, shows how easy it is to talk the talk on these matters of crucial importance, and how difficult to actually execute in the turbulence of low probability but high consequence events.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Like their 21st century successors, top executives of the ’50s weren’t typically fans of Washington playing too large a role in the economy. Today, by contrast, GE does all it can to escape taxation, in large part through “ innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore ,” as the New York Times characterized it.

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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.

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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.

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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. They create new products and services for customers. You need them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. They reward risk taking, by encouraging executives to capture learnings from efforts that come up short and then build these lessons into the next round of experiments. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value.

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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

MARCH 23, 2018

” These behaviors tend to be common in organizations characterized by toughness and competitiveness, like first-responder organizations, but even consultants and executives who spend most of their time behind a computer can valorize similar ideals, as sociologists Erin Reid and Mary Blair-Loy find in forthcoming research.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

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. Executives should understand four basic points about security: A well-executed data breach is potentially more dangerous to your business than a recession. He''s oblivious to reality.

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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. In the future, many commoditized products will continue to be made offshore. As a result, the U.S.

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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. million (57% from stock-based pay). million (70% from stock-based pay).

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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. But if fund managers and chief executives view their role as an opportunity to fulfill the dreams of avarice, we are in trouble.

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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. The union acted as a second set of leaders to help execute and reinforce changes. First, a little relevant history: In the 1950s economic expansion drove growing demand for appliances.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

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. Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. So early preparation is needed. Lessons from automakers. Mold the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Increasingly, executing that capability will be dependent on a new species of talent with deep technical skills to integrate local realities into products. Because banking has since become a technology business, the future is for entities that offer top-grade personalized banking services to customers, largely driven by low-cost automation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. On rewards for employees, look at Walmart’s example. Essential background.

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