Outsourcing Lemmings

A couple years ago I spent a few weeks exploring Italy with my wife and another couple... and my mother in-law.  I quickly found that my favorite part…

Regular readers know that onshoring has been a favorite topic of ours.  Swimming upstream against the flow of lemmings chasing low labor costs around…

Last month we told you how Lenovo, the Chinese company that bought the rights to the IBM computer line, is moving manufacturing facilities out of Chin…

Green, sustainable, and lean... the concepts often go hand in hand.  Coincidentally one of the concepts behind the Lean and Green Summit to be held in…

Although the tidal wave of lemmings outsourcing manufacturing to China has begun to slow in the face of a weak dollar and Chinese quality problems, th…

Quality and turnaround experts should be quivering in fear.  Apparently there's a new bunch of gurus who can create miracles of quality improvemen…

Highlighting Boeing's problems with the 787 outsourcing these days feels a bit like commenting on Britney Spears' parenting skills, but yester…

I often rant against the outsourcing lemmings that insist on chasing low labor costs around the world while not looking inward to find efficiency impr…