37 Articles match "edge","outsourcing"

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• The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
  
  has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. The culprit is the outsourcing of development and manufacturing work to specialists abroad. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. Today, many people are looking to high technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives the U.S. economy and gets it back on track.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, October 1, 2009
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• Outsourcing: The Culprit Is Capitalism, Not Wall Street
  
  If the trend toward outsourcing of critical technologies was a response to quarterly earnings pressure from Wall Street , it would stand to reason that U.S. technology companies' R&D budgets should fall with rising dependence on outsourced components and processes . But the opposite is true, which demonstrates that outsourcing is being employed not simply to cut costs, but as a means to direct capital to its So if all we care about is innovation — as opposed to the direct creation of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. — 8212; the market is working fine.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, October 26, 2009
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• Outsourcing Isn't a Problem for Silicon Valley But Is for Detroit
  
  Outsourcing manufacturing and product design to Asia has had an undeniably negative impact on the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States. But at least in the information technology industry, there is little evidence that outsourcing has slowed the rate of U.S. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. innovation or made the country less competitive. However, applying the lessons of IT to emerging industries where the U.S.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, October 9, 2009
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• Washington Should Get Tough with Countries that Force U.S. Companies to Outsource
  
  Some of the participants in this debate have blamed management's focus on the short term for the outsourcing decisions of U.S. Too often foreign governments committed to building their own high-tech economies pressure American companies to outsource their activities. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. high-tech companies. But sometimes the long-term thinking of foreign governments is the culprit.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, November 12, 2009
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• The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle and That's a Problem
  
  is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. Hayes: Global Outsourcing Is High Tech's Subprime Mortgage Fiasco Andy Rappaport: Outsourcing Isn't a Problem for Silicon Valley But Is for Detroit Willy C. Amazon's Kindle e-reader cannot be manufactured in the U.S. and that's a cause for concern.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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• State of Innovation in India: 2009
  
  It is simply too easy for a young developer in India to get paid a lot by an outsourcing firm; then enjoy being headhunted every year for more money. The big outsourcing firms have hiring freezes, and some firms are laying off. "Big" In India, all the parents have to do is say "Yes" when their bright kid, who is no longer working for a big outsourcing firm, asks to live at home for a year with free food and bandwidth. A year ago, I wrote about the State of Innovation in India , keying off an article I had written 10 years previously. Rather than wait another 10 years, ReadWriteWeb
  ReadWriteWeb - Sunday, January 18, 2009
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• Pleasing Wall Street is a Poor Excuse for Bad Decisions
  
  Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. Hayes: And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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• Government Should Enlist Foreign Companies in Rebuilding America's Industrial Commons
  
  whole generation of managers has been imbued, over a period of more than 20 years, with the supposed virtues of global outsourcing, and has profited handsomely from its apparent success. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge David B. Hayes: Global Outsourcing Is High Tech's Subprime Mortgage Fiasco Andy Rappaport: Outsourcing Isn't a Problem for Silicon Valley But How can American industry rebuild the skills and supplier bases required to produce advanced technologies? I
  HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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• Unbundling Dell's Businesses
  
  The broad trend towards outsourcing and offshoring over the past couple of decades can be understood as a systematic stripping out of infrastructure management businesses from larger companies. If we try to manage activities across too broad a waterfront, we run the risk of losing our edge across more and more of this waterfront. Dell made the news recently. The Wall Street Journal reports that it is seeking to sell off a significant portion of its factory network and logistics operations.
  Edge Perspectives with John Hagel - Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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• From Do It Yourself to Do It Together
  
  Chris Anderson continues to explore the edges of the Big Shift playing out around us. Options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing and distribution business activities to more focused business partners We wrote extensively about some of the institutional innovations emerging in China in such diverse industries as apparel, motorcycles, and consumer electronics in our earlier book, The Only Sustainable Edge . Having introduced us to The Long Tail and the growth of Free as a business model, Chris has just published a new article called "Atoms Are the New Bits" in the current issue of Wired .
  HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, February 18, 2010
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