N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Fear is dead as a management tool. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The best idea should win.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The first reason that many companies decide to outsourcing is that the operational and labour costs are much cheaper than hiring an employee into the business. They won’t need to pay a full time employee, but they will still be able to have a professional, expert service. Global Knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Since they were first published on April 3, the Panama Papers have thrust a spotlight onto world politicians, celebrities, and businesses sheltering money offshore. The largest release of data ever on the secret world of offshore companies led to the resignation of Iceland’s prime minister. So it’s an open question.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

For managers, the trend toward botsourcing will require a shift in thinking. Rather than moving operations to wherever work costs the least, consider which pieces can be automated, and how best to combine human and robotic expertise. This year, when the company announced that it was hiring an additional 2,500 full time U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Our biology largely drives this, triggering instant fight or flight responses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

By combining decades of manufacturing expertise with its rapidly expanding software engineering capability, GE is leading the big data revolution so that its customers can operate both more effectively and efficiently. trillion of relevant sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

To understand human behavior around risk, and to learn how to manage it better, it's important to recognize that one man's fear is another man's opportunity. This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Our biology largely drives this, triggering instant fight or flight responses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. •Manage sales force automation and CRM systems and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Starting a global engineering operation “essentially doubles the expense for 6-12 months,” says former Informatica CTO, James Markarian. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

These two unprecedented events are stark reminders that effective crisis management involving complex science and technology is wholly dependent on well-thought-out — and actively practiced — crisis response plans. government initially left many dimensions of crisis management and response to BP. Heineman, Jr.,

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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

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. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. We can filter out the background noise, like marine life, and listen only to things we want”, explains Fabian Dawson, sales manager from GE Measurement and Control. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. Consider how Barcelona, for example, systematically seeks innovative solutions from entrepreneurs: winning proposals receive guaranteed contracts, plus additional support like office space for their operations. Mind the Mittelstand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

senators — seeks to increase the number of visas that the US government can grant highly-skilled workers (aka H1B visas), from 65,000 to around 110,000 a year, it is likely to constraint non-American companies operating in the US. Change management India Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to operational improvement, organizations today are light years ahead of where they were two decades ago, but there's no time to celebrate yesterday's wins. The question for top management is no longer whether your organization's processes need to be improved, but rather which ones, how much, and when.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

tax laws change: Repatriating the cash from offshore would result in significant tax consequences under current U.S. The current setup for taxing the foreign operations of U.S. corporations allows them to defer taxes on their profits from international operations until they bring the cash back to the U.S. or whatever.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Tech titans such as Google and Amazon are working to connect more and more types of objects to the web by offering mobile interfaces for managing just about anything. Railway operators and wind farm owners were among the first to deploy the concept. That lag poses dangers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. How producers manage the resources they have is far more important than how much they have. Productivity-enhancing technology is already being deployed in mining operations around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers. LiveOps is one company that helps put call center work in the cloud.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Most still put marketing managers in nice cars to look for clients. Within a decade, 80% of staff should be able to automate activities like customer onboarding, sales, support, and investment management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

What has happened is that in the name of speed and efficiency, local managers and their employees have been equipped with web-based technologies, which is potentially a good thing: The right kind of system can empower workers to improve the customer experience and engage in a dialogue with the clientele.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to. Offshoring manufacturing and design. In our "software and sheet metal" age, the knowledge of hardware design and operation must now exist at a system level.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

By using readily available computations of vast amounts of data, a manufacturer can leverage analytics to generate real-time insights to understand the needs of end consumers and product performance under a myriad of operating conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Facilitate Acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

To do this, Royal Caribbean thought about every aspect of the ship and its operations from a guest's perspective. They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building. They think about how it will combine to create new capability rather than replace old operations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are the dry cleaners, restaurants, car repair operations, and local retailers that are part of the fabric of our daily lives. These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. from offshore.

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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. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

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. Still, it wouldn’t have dreamed of not paying its share. And it is hardly alone. Zellerbach told the magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On December 7, Portland, Oregon, passed a law that will impose a surcharge on the local business taxes paid by corporations that operate in the city when the CEO’s compensation is 100 times or more the median earnings of the company’s employees. public corporations must file with the U.S.

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