The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2023

What to do The study raises the question of legislation mandating the wealthy to adopt technology with zero carbon emissions. Despite the issue of high emissions from the wealthy receiving media attention, there is little evidence of politicians taking systematic action beyond market-based measures like small increases in carbon taxes.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Travel Energy Policies 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

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.

Technology 15

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

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 9

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

We estimate that tens of thousands of engineers and scientists working for top innovators are actually located in their offshore technical centers in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China); these are often called "captive" R&D centers or offshore R&D locations. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

Engineering 11

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 11

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. Technology to the rescue?

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

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 is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

Offshoring 16

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 16

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

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

Process 18

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. Many companies look for sales ops talent outside the immediate group by encouraging job rotations with other company departments, such as finance or marketing.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Organizations looking to create revenue from digital technology need a strategy that is more powerful than digital substitution.

IT Strategy 13

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

Finance 14

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 14

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

DECEMBER 18, 2013

And job losses have come in two forms: globalization that led to offshoring and technological displacement. These economic platforms further enable socio-economic activities that were always moving toward a more visible and centralized space—activities that have trickled up and are now given the market a face.

Offshoring 11

Offshoring Technology Constraint Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

While there is a lot of Hadoopalooza in the technology press about the tools for managing big data, and they are wonderful, it's also true that they are a) widely available, and b) mostly free. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications. The company needed to target sales and marketing approaches to each company and potential buyer. There is still some human labor involved.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. We''re not a technology firm." "We For example, Brazil and Saudi Arabia sound like safe, low-cost offshore data locations, yet Transparency International''s Corruptions Perceptions Index ranks them lower than Cuba and Rwanda.

CEO 11

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

After the deepest recession in a generation, the United States labor market has seen a steady and strong increase in jobs, with the unemployment rate falling from 10% in 2009 to 5% in December 2015. Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. That’s where wage insurance comes in.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. In fact, American companies often have a competitive advantage when it comes to producing technologically advanced, differentiated goods that require precision manufacturing and a high level of quality control. So the picture is truly nuanced. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 9

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. A 210 meter mean sea level (MSL) deep water facility at the Bergen site also provides deep water testing for the technology. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. 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. Data consolidation.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 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. Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. So far, nothing has worked. Of the 15 largest public Internet companies today, none are European. Bygrave and Jeffry A.

Policies 8

Policies Offshoring Engineering Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. 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

JUNE 23, 2015

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

With the rise of the internet of things, our individual technology envelopes – our personal networks of smart, connected devices — are rapidly becoming more complicated as more and more devices from a growing profusion of vendors do ever more complex jobs.

Company 8

Company Offshoring Self-aware Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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. Good technology exists and will help, if we use it.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A recent Fast Company profile hints that Flyknit’s small footprint and low labor intensity could help Nike put more factories in more places, slashing time-to-market as well as import duties. The tools to do this are already here. The washing machine example above is just one idea among thousands, but it raises immediate issues.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Products Productivity Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value. Says CEO Nat Mani of the Silicon Valley contract manufacturer Bestronics : “We are increasingly seeking to work with start-ups as a form of business development, but also to stay on top of new technologies. Such an age could be beneficial for the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. In some areas and sectors, the market provides all the capital needed. For example, the market for bank credit for small businesses has been tight, particularly for loans under $150,000.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring. They weren’t turning to the domestic labor market to find the talent they needed, or indeed investing in training local workers, but instead offshoring to where the talent already was.

Globalization 40

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.

Offshoring 15

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. They could do this either by restructuring and downsizing various departments, or by implementing new technology that automated many of the tasks currently performed by employees. Unfounded fears.

Restructuring 133

Restructuring Offshoring Politics Technology 133