Outsourcing Lemmings

I just returned from my annual trip to visit some customers and attend a trade show in Shanghai, China. Always an interesting experience and I persona…

One piece flow is a core concept of lean and thanks to its counterintuitive nature also one of the more difficult ones to embrace. We naturally want t…

This past week has seen a trio of articles explicitly lay out the crisis, misperception, and opportunity of manufacturing in America. Two great articl…

Cheap, low margin, low tech. Made in America, exported to China. It can be done, even with a product that has comparatively zero demand in America.…

Well another of the big five (or is it four or three by now?) consultancies has figured out that offshore outsourcing doesn't work. The strateg…

I haven't exactly been Boeing's best friend over the past several years, regularly taking them to task for their nutty 787 Dreamliner outsourc…

Although the wave of companies running to China in the mistaken belief that direct labor is their largest cost has slowed, there are still some lemmin…

And I don't mean San Francisco, Mexico. This is "high cost" San Francisco in nutty "high cost" California in the "uncompe…