Outsourcing Lemmings

Over the last couple years we've told you several stories of furniture companies that believe they can't be competitive from U.S.-based factor…

About a year ago we warned companies to beware of chasing cheap labor around the world... "globetrotting" as we called it. Ahh... to be a w…

This morning many of us read about Mattel apologizing to the Chinese, claiming that the recalls were primarily the company's fault and not that of…

We've often discussed how outsourcing lemmings generally look at just one factor, labor cost, when deciding to offshore manufacturing. In reality…

About 18 months ago Bill told you how Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, chief guy at Lego and former McKinsey wizard, had decided to outsource most of Lego's…

A recent McKinsey Quarterly has a book excerpt titled Bringing Best Practice to China, which describes the evolving level of management and operationa…

This is part of a five part series on a recent McKinsey series of article on lean manufacturing. Other posts in the series: Introduction, Public Secto…

Another day, another story about Chinese quality problems. This time it was Mattel's Fisher-Price division having to recall over 1.5 million toys…