Smartsourcing - The Podcasts

10 - Uncertainty Games

What is the toll of uncertainty? Uncertainty exacts a high price in very real emotional terms. Yet, it also opens doors if you know how to play this game.


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10 - Uncertainty Games

What is the toll of uncertainty? Uncertainty exacts a high price in very real emotional terms. Yet, it also opens doors if you know how to play this game.


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9 - The Uncertainty Principle

Uncertainty has always been a part of life. But in today's highly connected world the volume and the rate of uncertainty seems to be accelerating at an alarming pace. Can uncertainty be harnessed? Can we build organizations that are wired to survive the unanticipated? The Uncertainty Principle offers a framework for understanding and leveraging uncertainty.


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8 - The Winds of Change

Uncertainty can dramatically reduce our ability to innovate. Yet, uncertainty also creates unforseen opportunities. Can uncertainty be harnessed to fuel innovation and growth? A look at the basic dynamics of uncertainty and innovation.


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7 - A Higher Education

The Catalyst for globalization is not technology but rather education. For the past two-hundred years no other factor has had greater influence on how we work, where we work, or the work we do than access to higher education.


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6 - The Placeless Job

Today work moves like water, finding the path of least resistance in terms of cost and efficiency. From your fast food drive-in order to your health claim work flows unimpeded, the geographic borders that for so long defined work are quickly eroding.


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5 - A Defining Moment

What is the driving force that will shape the next 100 years of innovation?


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4 - Economies of Scope

Smartsourcing shifts risk and costs from an economy of scale to an economy of scope, in the same way that electricity made the transition from scale to scope in the early part of the 20th Century. Standards, cost savings, and most importantly the ability to innovate are all signficant benefits of this shift.


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3 - Smartsourcing vs. Outsourcing

Smartsourcing goes beyond first generation outsourcing initiatives which focus purely on cost cutting. Smartsourcing focuses an organization on its core competencies and accelerates innovation across its value chain.


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2 - What's Your World View

What do you see when you imagine an image of the world? What will best define us, the factors that seperate us or those that connect us? Tough questions to begin our journey through globalization and
Smartsourcing.


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1 - An Introduction to Smartsourcing

An introduction to Smartsourcing and how the mobility of work is changing organizations and the global economy.


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