BusinessWeek prepares for the upcoming leader-fest in Davos.

(excerpt) Managing the Global Workforce
As the World Economic Forum opens in Davos, companies ponder how to gain an edge by finding the right talent in the right location

Today, global corporations are transforming themselves into "transnationals," moving work to the places with the talent to handle the job and the time to do it at the right cost. The threat of a U.S. recession only makes such efforts at lowering expenses and grabbing the best talent even more urgent. William J. Amelio, the CEO of Lenovo, the world's third-largest computer maker, calls his global workforce strategy "worldsourcing." Lenovo has executive offices in five cities worldwide and organizes its workforce around hubs of expertise, such as hardware designers in Japan and marketers in India. "You operate as if there's just one time zone," Amelio says. "And you're always on."

Posted by Reid at January 20, 2008 09:54 PM