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The Global Sourcing debate… a strategy that requires careful consideration and a weighing of the pros and cons. Global sourcing is not for everyone, and like most other strategic decisions, it has its advantages and disadvantages. Global Sourcing is a strategic decision that should be closely tied to overall corporate strategy. But how does the…
Many people in business today are familiar with ISO, and their series of standards that have been in the marketplace now for decades. Opinions on the effectiveness of ISO vary, and most people that I talk to think of it simply as the dreaded annual audit they go through to ensure that their organization maintains…
Over the past couple of decades, China has been extremely successful in becoming a major economic force globally, and has in effect long since established themselves as the “world’s manufacturers”. In fact, it often seems difficult to find products in retail stores throughout North America and the rest of the world that is not Made…
Well, it’s been a while now since panic first set in with our current economic crisis. Although the panic has somewhat subsided in favour of some more rational thought, we are far from the end of this slowdown, although we do seem to have bottomed out. Although these downturns are indeed somewhat nerve-wracking, it certainly…
In this day and age of global sourcing, and the increased competitive battles in the marketplace, product quality seems to be getting its fair share of press. North Americans seem bent on perpetuating the belief that products made in other parts of the world, particularly in China, are of inferior quality, and are even putting…
In today’s global economy of rising fuel costs, fluctuating exchange rates, labour shortages, and rapidly shrinking margins, organizations without an import strategy are finding it near impossible to compete. Global competition, and in particular competition from low cost labour countries, is resulting in lost customers and deteriorating profitability for many domestic manufacturers. Despite these competitive…