How prepared are you for a sudden, dramatic decline in demand? Is it even on your radar? Most of us think of demand in terms of waves that slowly rise…

Another day, another article trying to figure out how to simplify global supply chains... without realizing that the easiest way to simplify them is t…

We've taken McKinsey to task several times over the past year, especially with regards to their "thinking" on supply chains. But last mo…

Few people disagree that the U.S. tax code needs to change. Currently there are tens of thousands of pages of laws and procedures and regulations, gro…

"Bureaucracy" and "opportunity"... normally those aren't symbiotic terms unless you're a glutton for punishment, but in to…

Earlier this year we were all up in arms about lead contamination in toys and other children's products coming from China. Time for more regulatio…

Slowly but surely companies are beginning to realize that there is more to competitiveness than just cheap labor. Chinese wages and salaries are a…

The Detroit Three car companies, and all companies for that matter, are taking sometimes draconian steps to cut costs. Some examples: Over the past…