Outsourcing Lemmings

We've been telling you about Boeing's disastrous supply chain convolutions with the 787 Dreamliner for years, and over the past several months…

With all the grief that Bill and Kevin give the US government about its misguided interventions in the free market (quite often deservedly), it's…

A couple months ago I told you how GE’s Jeff Immelt was singing a new tune on the glories of outsourcing. A rather radical new tune, which raised the…

We’ve been following the story of Whirlpool’s Evansville refrigerator factory for several years. Back in August of 2006 we told you about one round of…

It's starting to be a trend... a good one for a change. Companies rethinking their outsourcing strategy after realizing how traditional accounting…

There is an interesting interview with a Harvard guy named Umair Haque in Business Week, in which he carries on about the "sweatshops" in wh…

Interesting article from an unusual source on bicycle manufacturing returning to the United States from "low cost" overseas countries. It ge…

I have often made feeble attempts to describe why publicly traded companies find it virtually impossible to embrace lean manufacturing, and its pr…