CEO Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

Trends: Ubiquitous connectivity Pervasive Digitization Cloud and Convergence of Technologies Social Networks These trends change the way we compete. If there is a trend to moving offshore then there are markets for things like ESL, accent correction, communication process and systems. Trends change the way innovation happens.

Innovation 140

Innovation Offshoring Trends Outsourcing 140

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. Therefore, we question whether policy measures like, for instance, progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient to meet climate goals,” the researchers explain.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Travel Energy Policies 52

Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. Linear Technology, Milpitas, CA. AvalonBay Communities, Arlington, VA. 2. Cameron InternationalHouston, TX. 3. CF Industries Holding, Deerfield, IL. 4. Cintas, Cincinnati, OH. 5. Denbury Resources, Plano, TX. 7. Discovery Communications, Silver Spring, MD. Peters, MO.

P&L 209

P&L Company Offshoring Diversity 209

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

Industry 75

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Businesses will incorporate these technologies to interact with their customers. Cloud-based technology increases connectivity. In turn, this makes offshoring more efficient. Furthermore, the United States outsources around 300,000 jobs annually.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

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

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2024

While this is a common reason we’ve seen for job cuts, layoffs and furloughs could also occur due to many other reasons, for example: Plans to streamline the business in a different direction leads a business to shut down departments that are no longer relevant A project falls through and employees associated with it are no longer required Mergers (..)

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Finance Planning Insurance 52

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. When wages are relatively low, for instance, create labor-intensive processes to reduce the cost of equipment, technology and automation.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

But what about those times when you have a special project or need help to explore emerging technology? There are offshore markets to explore too. Making use of modern communications technology makes it easy to share projects and get the same quality of work as you would get from your local town. Specialist knowledge.

Outsourcing 50

Outsourcing Strategic Planning Offshoring Resources 50

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

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 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.

Technology 15

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 15

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. A few of her thoughts can be found below: Social Media is forcing us to redefine leadership. What’s the ROI on a handshake?

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

The former states that digital technology and robotics are advancing at such a pace that: “Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. But over time technology is a far more reliable path to increased productivity. Technology' Companies will be forced to transform or die.”

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 9

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

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. federal research in the 1990s largely established the feasibility of the technology, U.S. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 11

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

BP has deployed GE’s System1TM and SmartSignalTM software across a number of its offshore production facilities located in the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, along with other key oil and gas areas such as Gulf of Mexico, Caspian Sea and Angola. See how GE can give you the edge: invent.ge/oil-and-gas. oil-and-gas.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Just as America''s visa rules enabled the rapid growth of India''s information-technology companies over the last two decades, the Obama Administration''s recent drive to reform immigration regulations could prove to be a turning point for them. In the same way, India''s information technology giants must bite the bullet today.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Information Technology Automotive Technology 8

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?

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

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 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. The technology is sometimes described as supporting “ swivel chair ” processes involving a lot of back-and-forth access to multiple information systems. However, many companies don’t do that.

Process 13

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 13

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. With growing demand for data analytics, sales ops capabilities have become an even more important ingredient in sales force success.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

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 15

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project.

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

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. 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

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 16

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

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 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. As workforces hollow out, the remaining employees will be highly specialized and experienced business/technology hybrids—a new breed of professional who can work in highly distributed environments and shift from managing people to managing experiences and technology.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs. Facilitate Acquisitions. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., Allow for Greater Responsiveness to Future Events.

Company 15

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 15

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.

Call Center 15

Call Center Offshoring Policies System 15

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

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. Sponsor Content Insight from GE. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Offshoring Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss. (When you get a new job, you lose your unemployment checks, creating a disincentive to find work.). What wage insurance does.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In these days of temporary and consultant-heavy workforces, offshoring and outsourcing, a younger, technologically adept generation, and the plummeting cost of data storage, you would have to be pretty confident that you had an ace security team on the job to protect your sensitive data.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Outsourcing Information Business Model 15

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. companies had the technology they need to extract oil from the deep seabed, but now they feel completely comfortable relying on their own domestic suppliers. Until recently, only U.S.

Offshoring 14

Offshoring Magazine Globalization System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption. 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.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have a hunch, though, that there's one other factor at play that's not yet getting much attention: digitization , or the increasing penetration of information technology into all aspects of the business world. Technology is letting companies do more and more with less and less, and with fewer and fewer people.

Outsourcing 15

Outsourcing Offshoring GDP Information Technology 15