Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Increasing evidence suggests that although larger turbines can capture more energy, at a certain point the costs of maintaining and decommissioning large turbines located far offshore will outweigh the benefits of that energy capture.

Long-term 29

Long-term Cost Offshoring Energy 29

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. Instead of building in-house teams to cover non-key operations and other excess workloads, they will opt to outsource since it’s the more cost-effective way to go. These tasks include arranging schedules, finalizing meetings, and qualifying clients, among others. The Cloud Effect.

Outsourcing 65

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 65

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.

Outsourcing 68

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. There are offshore markets to explore too. Let's say you want a new website designed. Many highly skilled developers can be found in emerging markets such as India, where costs are far lower.

Outsourcing 50

Outsourcing Strategic Planning Offshoring Resources 50

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2024

“I want to thank the union workers, the carriers, and the port operators for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding. Goods have been held up in large numbers and shipping costs have begun rising already.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Bottom-up Content Globalization 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2019

Ryan Buell, associate professor at Harvard Business School, says the never-ending quest for operational efficiency is having unintended consequences. When customers don’t see the work that’s being done in back offices, offshore factories, and algorithms, they’re less satisfied with their purchases.

Operations 14

Operations Offshoring Ryan Efficiency 14

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

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Since 2008, we've benchmarked the performance of nearly 250 operations centers working on both core operations (e.g., But that's not by accident.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

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. Technology done well doesn’t just replace workers, but makes them more productive. For managers, the trend toward botsourcing will require a shift in thinking. Technology'

Offshoring 12

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 12

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.

Offshoring 12

Offshoring Marketing Finance Price 12

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. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 14

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.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

GDP 15

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus. From day one until they leave the Corps, they are subjected to a battery of unique surprises.

Arkes 16

Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

This is core to how the Royal Marines train and operate. They will be told to prepare for a group exercise on the Scottish moors, only to be landed offshore and told to take control of a heavily-guarded fort on Cyprus. From day one until they leave the Corps, they are subjected to a battery of unique surprises.

Arkes 16

Arkes Management Offshoring Uncertainty 16

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. They won't immunize your organization against this decade's march of ongoing progress.

Process 18

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 18

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.

Call Center 15

Call Center Offshoring Charisma Video 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. Testing in these cases was not previously possible due to the cost of an on-site operator. 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

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 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.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

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. The Bank of Montreal Financial Group uses simulations and coaching to improve its call-center operations, and a similar strategy was adopted by Primera Therapeutics.

Call Center 15

Call Center Offshoring Policies System 15

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.

Company 15

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

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.

Engineering 14

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 14

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.

Innovation 14

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

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. India''s hi-tech giants clearly need to reinvent themselves.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 9

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.

IT Strategy 13

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

He didn’t do it by making cars shoddier or offshoring production to low-wage countries. Health India Operations Productivity' 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! Yet, too much of U.S. Why can’t U.S.

Health Care 11

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 11

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.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

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 13

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 13

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.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

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. As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything.

Process 17

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 17

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. To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate.

Insourcing 10

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

We need a "war game" mentality in the private sector to address the severe conceptual and operational problems in crisis response and crisis management which the Gulf Spill and the Japan nuclear events so starkly illustrate. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable. Heineman, Jr.,

Crisis Management 16

Crisis Management Crisis Management Chemicals 16

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.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value. But we never ask value for whom? Over the past two decades, much of the economic value of U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 15