The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The results suggest that various cost-cutting measures, such as layoffs and offshoring, can have a much bigger impact than organizations think, with this impact lasting longer than we imagine. Each of the studies followed employees for up to two years, thus providing the researchers with a glimpse into changes in attitude over time.

Morale 128

Morale Offshoring Cost Loyalty 128

N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. There is always room for new thinking and innovation, or at least there should be. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process?

Benchmarking 199

Benchmarking Outsourcing Fashion Offshoring 199

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 93

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.

Creativity 192

Creativity Brainstorming Offshoring Audience 192

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. In the past, electronic part production runs were handled offshore for a range of reasons. Furthermore, the manufacturing process lacks the transparency companies want and need.

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Offshoring Engineering Cost Bottom-up 109

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.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

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

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. Investors will certainly look to this frontier of innovation to find companies with profit potential. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

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. For our manufacturing organization mentioned above, what value is there in pursuing next practice innovation in their payroll process?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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 11

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Out of all the speakers on today’s agenda David is the one I’d be most interested in having dinner with. I Think Not.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 360

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? why is everyone smiling?

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Organization Outsourcing Leadership Hedge 186

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

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.

Technology 15

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 14

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. Collective goals.

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Offshoring Policies Innovation Organizational Behavior 54

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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Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. The best factories routinely conduct scientific experiments to improve their processes, and the best factory managers are teachers and innovators as well as leaders of people.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 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

Second, the bigger CMOs tend to have specialized skills and knowledge that can help their partners innovate. innovation" typically means just one thing to people: novel gadgets. Few policy makers realize that much of the innovation that has propelled China's economy, for example, is of the incremental or process type.

Contract Manufacturing 10

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 10

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.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On a trip to South America last fall, for instance, I recall talking to people in the oil industry about a complicated offshore drilling project. Solving them will involve changes to our financial system, our innovation system, our education system, and our political system. Until recently, only U.S.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Magazine Globalization System 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more.

Health Care 9

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Put simply, public companies and investment institutions are two of the great social innovations of the last two hundred years. 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.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Finance Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. But it’s not good at innovation. The other economy—the Creative Economy—is an economy of continuous innovation and transformation.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

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

Innovate ferociously. Africa has to innovate — for example by building new credit models — to expand their businesses and make them more appealing. A director that reports directly to the CEO will be optimal. The old banking order is failing in Africa and central banks are losing their powers with all the disintermediation.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. The arguments in favor of strategic cash are compelling—especially when economic conditions, market regulations, technology innovations, and tax policies are highly fluid and uncertain—but CFOs also should take steps to allay investor concerns.

Company 15

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

from offshore. As Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin have noted, strong supply chains bring “low logistical costs, rapid problem solving and easier joint innovation.” A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

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. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation' Many of the solutions proposed are around paying people more to manufacture in the USA.

Business Model 9

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

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. And quickly. Private investors, unlike government funders, operate at lightning speed. consumers take for granted. Which isn’t to say the U.S.,

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Offshoring Policies 15

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. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

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

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building. Second, a digital edge brings together digital and physical resources resulting in business innovation rather than business disruption. This gives the effort a clear and manageable focus.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In 2014 a CBRE report estimated that 50% of jobs would be redundant by 2025 due to technological innovation. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work. And navigating this ever-changing landscape requires continual learning and personal growth.

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Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8