By giving more thought to how prospective offshore sites can serve their special needs and not just following the pack, companies stand to reap broader, longer-term advantages. One of these is lower labor costs in developing countries overall. The expansion of the offshore market to include many new cities will ...
Archive for January, 2009
Written by on January 29th, 2009
Written by on January 20th, 2009
The offshoring pioneers in the early 1990s – global giants like General Electric and British Airways – were drawn to locations with excellent universities that offered plentiful supplies of first-rate talent at low wages. After seeing these first movers’ cost advantages, other companies began flocking to the same cities. Local ...
Written by on January 10th, 2009
The drive to achieve is tough to resist. Most people in Western cultures are taught from early childhood to value achievement. For some people, the drive seems innate: They don’t just know achievement is important, they feel it. Accomplishment is a natural high for them. Just ask admitted overachiever Karin ...
Written by on January 2nd, 2009
When Jeff Immelt became GE’s chairman and CEO in 2001, the organization already had a robust tool kit
in place to tackle business problems. Most of its key initiatives have focused on enhancing productivity.
>> Best Practices Sharing: identifies particularly effective approaches and spreads them across GE’s businesses
>> Change Acceleration Process: equips ...