Outsourcing Lemmings

If you're a regular reader you know by now how ridiculous outsourcing can be. Traditional accounting methods that value brains as a simple set of…

By now regular readers know that costs are skyrocketing in China, and even the traditional accounting gurus are saying that outsourcing to that countr…

Over the past year or two we've been reading more and more about the growing competition for talent inside China, which is creating rapid wage inf…

Lately we've been telling you about all the companies that are waking up to the unexpected costs of outsourcing, especially due to rising fuel cos…

Let's review some recent statements on the manufacturing economy: Now many exporters and workshops here have shut their doors. Others, their work…

I guess you could say the lemmings are coming home to roost, or some such disjointed metaphor. A few weeks ago we told you how high fuel costs are dri…

Today's NYTimes unknowingly threw into stark relief the consequences of the different paths taken by Boeing and Brazil's Embraer. Boeing, of c…

Who would have thunk it. For years we've been deriding the simple-minded companies that chase low labor costs around the globe under the mistaken…