Outsourcing Lemmings

Over the past several weeks we've penned many posts about manufacturers that have woken up to the hidden costs of offshore manufacturing or outsou…

Mike Collins has penned an article in Product Design and Development that does a good job of showing how more and more companies are waking up to the…

Thanks for regular reader Craig for bringing this story to our attention - another example of the hidden costs of outsourcing. The German toymaker St…

What could have happened if our friend Santa Claus had succumbed to the call of the outsourcing lemmings? Another Christmas, another triumph for the…

I was digging through some articles I'd saved and came across a a piece from a week ago in the WSJ on Oracle and Larry Ellison. What's the guy…

Sometimes I really wonder if the wunderkinds of yesteryear are really that smart or just lucky in the moment. Michael Dell was one such prodigy, creat…

Once again we’re coming up on holiday season, and once again we have a bunch of retailers and toy manufacturers who tried to guess the latest trend in…

Over the past three years we've been chronicling Boeing's dive into their outsourcing adventure on the Dreamliner project, and the struggles a…