Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” Mark Donnolo is founder and Managing Partner of SalesGlobe , a leading sales effectiveness, consulting, and innovation firm. Yet the respondents overwhelmingly agreed that this critical skill is either ignored or under-taught in schools.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Every year, millions of workers lose their jobs due to technological advancements, international competition, offshoring, and regulatory changes. However, these measures often fall short of fully addressing the needs of displaced workers, especially as emerging technologies like AI and decarbonization continue to disrupt labor markets.

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Insurance Offshoring Short-term Long-term 78

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When a startup or small and medium enterprise moves through this process, they often find they detour from the innovation path. The company can then determine its market acceptance and determine whether to proceed with manufacturing the item. Time to Market. Fortunately, they don’t need to take this route.

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Offshoring Engineering Cost Bottom-up 105

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Rather than those jobs going to un- or under-employed locals, the jobs often get offshored to places where the talent exists. In a recent article I looked at what happens when companies can’t access the talent they need due to migration issues.

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Offshoring Bond Brand Reference 73

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2023

. “In order to eliminate dependence on Russian import of coal, oil, and gas and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, countries like—for instance—Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark, have vowed to increase their investments in offshore wind energy,” the researchers explain.

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Offshoring Travel Energy Policies 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

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Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 11

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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Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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. Technology companies with the capabilities and courage to innovate were bright spots and signals of important trends for the future. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S.

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Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 14

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. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Strategic cash provides more flexibility concerning the timing and pricing of potential acquisitions; having cash on hand is the best insurance that CFOs will be able to respond with alacrity to opportunities and not be subject to the vagaries of the financial markets.

Company 15

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

First, let's make sure we're focused on the two biggest pressures on joblessness and job generation: the would-be new entrants — the 16- to 24-year-olds — lacking the necessary skills and experience to land gainful employment, and the post-55-year-old mature workers, intent on remaining in the labor market, or scrambling to get back in.

Politics 15

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 15

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. But it’s not good at innovation.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

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. While you can start an offshore location with non-critical responsibilities, unless responsibilities move upstream, you risk attrition.

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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. That is true when digital technology is viewed in isolation such as building big data in customer service, social media in marketing, or mobility in the sales force. This gives the effort a clear and manageable focus.

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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. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

On one hand, regardless of current economic concerns, emerging markets are where long-term growth opportunities lie. On the other, the crisis in the euro zone has forced banks to rethink their investments in numerous markets, if not retreat from them altogether. Emerging market players. Filling the Gap.

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Banking Globalization Offshoring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

The EU has spent twenty years trying to create the kind of market conditions needed for explosive growth seen elsewhere in the digital economy. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. or even Silicon Valley, has figured out every legal hack that would make innovation flourish.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

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. Innovate ferociously. Such realignments could be catalytic in fending up the challenges from fintech competitors. Think about local needs.

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Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. from China and elsewhere. So the picture is truly nuanced.

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

First, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in flexible automated fabrication, exemplified by innovations like Tesla Motors’ robot-heavy car factories and Nike’s revolutionary Flyknit process. The most successful manufacturers of the next ten years will be those who seize this opportunity before their competitors do.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year. Such an age could be beneficial for the U.S.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

More important, workers’ incentives to learn the new skills were weak because the labor market was initially quite limited. But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Brazil is apparently the place to go if you’re in the market for some banking malware. There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates. Trojans that let you spy on incoming and outgoing texts will run you $350.

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Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A new paper from Wharton explores whether excessive immigration restrictions actually force companies to take work elsewhere and offshore to another country entirely. It creates a spectrum whereby you examine migration through its impact on innovation or local jobs. The effect on innovation.

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Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 58

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The importance of foreign talent to a country’s innovative capabilities was underlined by a recent letter signed by 40 heads of business schools from across the United States, which makes the case for a more liberal immigration policy that allows greater mobility of talent. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning.

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Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 15

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A common argument made by opponents to immigration is that migrants undercut the local labor market, making things harder for natives. These are the fears that have emerged after a number of widely cited reports into the impact of technology on the labor market, but do they match reality? Unfounded fears.

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Restructuring Offshoring Politics Technology 133

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

As technology could do the job more cost effectively than even workers in cheaper locations abroad, it makes commercial sense to bring production nearer to the markets the products are ultimately sold in. There’s no real evidence that tariffs help the lot of those whose low-skilled work was originally offshored.

Offshoring 71

Offshoring Short-term Long-term Policies 71

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. 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. Because this is the greatest place anywhere in the world to invest in innovation and R&D.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

“Dislocations in labor markets, with old industries and jobs disappearing.” We’ve already seen knowledge work such as accounting and legal services being shipped offshore to cheaper employees. If anything, the power has become more concentrated, and the main benefits of the digital economy have been skewed.

Open-book 8

Open-book Technology Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers. days of innovation). We’re seeing some interesting innovation in policy and business practice. Others want to attract and retain diverse talent.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. Market strategies are not enough; business leaders also need nonmarket strategies. The successful ones have, at least. Donald Trump won the U.S.

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Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 15