Category: Outsourcing
Bear Necessities
20-01-2010
An article on the Lean Production site Evolving Excellence brings a few good points into focus on the problems companies have when outsourcing. It features the German Steiff company, famous for its toy bears, and discusses why its outsourcing of bear...
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Why Outsourcing Didn't Work
19-11-2009
There's a really clear explanation of why outsourcing hasn't worked as a long-term business strategy at the Evolving Excellence site, by internationally respected consultant Bill Waddell. You can go to his article about it here. The site is about...
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Outsourcing In The News
23-10-2009
Outsourcing has been in the news recently as more and more people are questioning whether it's a sustainable industrial policy. It used to be the default strategy for consultants and business school students, but it's now in the spotlight like never...
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Outsourcing - An Introduction
06-10-2009
As this site is about where products come from, it makes sense to introduce ideas about Outsourcing here in the Blog section. Many environmentalists fear that by allowing so much of Western industry to be outsourced in the past, the influence over companies...
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