Horizontal Talent CEO Jeremy Langevin chats with industry leaders about the newest trends, cutting edge strategies and insightful knowledge aimed at elevating your business, your product and your career.
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Roundsourcing: in a globalized world, opportunities for sourcing goods, services, talent, technology and ideas come from anywhere around the globe.
Joe Dehner International Services Team Leader at Frost Brown Todd
In Roundsourcing, we explore how we source practically everything regardless of its origin. Quality, price, convenience, talent, availability and efficiency determine where we buy and use goods and services, not where they were invented or produced. In a globalized world, vast opportunities exist for sourcing goods, services, talent, technology and ideas from anywhere around the globe, at any time. Local borders are powerful and barriers to a truly free world are high, and yet, roundsourcing ...
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The contingent workforce and strategic storytelling with Mickey Pelletier
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36:50In episode 3 of Launch Point, Jeremy is joined by joined by Mickey Pelletier, a powerhouse in contingent workforce strategy and the founder of CWM Strategies. Mickey has spent nearly two decades on every side of the CW ecosystem, from global consulting firms to MSPs and VMS providers to client-side leadership. He’s now helping both buyers and provi…
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Organizational Change Management with Orlando
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24:42In episode 2 of Launch Point, Jeremy is joined by Orlando Gafford, an expert in Organizational Change Management who’s helped companies like Medtronic, Cargill and Grainger successfully navigate transformation. Jeremy and Orlando discuss how to lead through change, empower teams and build lasting adoption -- especially during technology and process…
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For the inaugural episode of Launch Point, Jeremy dives into all things AI with Horizontal Talent Senior Global Director of Marketing, Product & Tech, Rachel Enstrom. Key topics include: Horizontal’s approach to AI adoption Identifying the right use cases for AI A strategic approach to AI implementation Measuring success and optimizing AI adoption …
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As the 2016 SOAR Business Mission to Brazil concludes, this podcast episode offers parting thoughts from the airport in Belo Horizonte. Despite a highly protectionist national economy, the bustling economy of Belo Horizonte is evidence that roundsourcing is moving Brazil to a new level on the world scene.…
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The iPhone and Us- should China or U.S.A. assemble iPhones?
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5:17Apple iPhones come from China. Should the U.S. slap huge tariffs on their import? Let’s consider the facts.The iPhone is an American product sourced of U.S.-based inspiration and design. Conceived and engineered in California and North Carolina, its brain, chips, audio elements and glass are made by workers in Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, California and …
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Interview With Alana Portes, International Analyst for the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
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3:47The Roundsourcerer visited Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil, where he met with Alana Portes to discuss the state’s investment in international partnerships to benefit science, technology and innovation. Portes is an international analyst at the National and International Partnership Advisory for the State Secretariat.…
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Interview with Fabiana Kent Paiva at the FINIT Innovation Fair(Brazil)
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2:55Belo Horizonte was host to the first ever International Fair of Business, Innovation and Technology (FINIT). Organized by the Minas Gerais Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the four-day event was one of the biggest technology and innovation events in the world with some 10,000 visitors daily. The goal of the event was to brin…
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Interview with Tulio Teixeira, international business analyst for FIEMG in Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
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3:00The metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is the fifth largest industrial region of Latin America. Over the last decade, its GDP has grown more than that of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro respectively, while enjoying a nearly 30% lower cost of living. The area has successfully attracted foreign investment and has established it…
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Embraer: How the world’s third largest airplane maker sources from the USA (Brazil)
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4:01The Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer is one of the largest manufacturers of commercial jets in the world, but only sources 18% of its content value in Brazil. It indicates the supply chain is highly global, even within an exceptionally protectionist country like Brazil.By Joe Dehner International Services Team Leader at Frost Brown Todd
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The intertwining economies of the North and South American Giants (Brazil)
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3:33While visiting Brazil on an inbound trade mission in November 2016, the Roundsourcer had the opportunity to meet with the Honorary Consul of Brazil to the State of Washington, Pedro Augusto Leite Costa. Costa has a wealth of experience when it comes to Americans doing business in Brazil and shared his top tips for successful interactions with the l…
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For the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, it must start the process by sending a letter beginning a formal process. Who has authority to send the letter? Many assume it is the British Prime Minister. But that’s not at all clear. What if it requires a vote of Parliament? Then Britain may exit Brexit and stay in the European Union after all…
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