Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Is US Blind to Dangers of Foreign Outsourcing?
Is US Blind to Dangers of Foreign Outsourcing?
By Thomas Emmon Pisano, Seoul Times Columnist on The outsourcing of American manufacturing
"To answer the above stated question, yes America is oblivious to what is happening to her economy, society, standards, and its people because of foreign outsourcing. We, as Americans, run many risks because of the utilization of off shore manufactured goods and raw materials. I have come to this conclusion about outsourcing; through an unfortunate and rude awakening, this reporter has discovered that as hard as overseas manufactures and service providers may try, their products are inferior to domestically manufactured goods and services, " says the author in this note.
Read more from the report here @ The Seoul Times
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By Thomas Emmon Pisano, Seoul Times Columnist on The outsourcing of American manufacturing
"To answer the above stated question, yes America is oblivious to what is happening to her economy, society, standards, and its people because of foreign outsourcing. We, as Americans, run many risks because of the utilization of off shore manufactured goods and raw materials. I have come to this conclusion about outsourcing; through an unfortunate and rude awakening, this reporter has discovered that as hard as overseas manufactures and service providers may try, their products are inferior to domestically manufactured goods and services, " says the author in this note.
Read more from the report here @ The Seoul Times
BlogOut provides global outsourcing updates across industries & business functions. See BlogOut Directory for the complete list of categories
Labels: analysis, manufacturing, manufacturing-usa, offshore-manufacturing, opinions, problems-manufacturing, problems-usa, quality, usa
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Qantas finds fault with offshore maintenance
Qantas finds fault with offshore maintenance
21 March, 2007
Reporter: Chris Uhlmann
With Qantas keen to take a percentage of its aircraft maintenance offshore, an audit by Qantas itself has raised serious questions about the safety standards of a maintenance contractor in Singapore, based on a copy of a Qantas internal audit of the Singapore company.
The auditors found a number of serious problems with the company's aircraft maintenance work, says this report from ABC, Australia based on an AM transcript.
Read the full report here
BlogOut provides global outsourcing updates across industries & business functions. See BlogOut Directory for the complete list of categories
21 March, 2007
Reporter: Chris Uhlmann
With Qantas keen to take a percentage of its aircraft maintenance offshore, an audit by Qantas itself has raised serious questions about the safety standards of a maintenance contractor in Singapore, based on a copy of a Qantas internal audit of the Singapore company.
The auditors found a number of serious problems with the company's aircraft maintenance work, says this report from ABC, Australia based on an AM transcript.
Read the full report here
BlogOut provides global outsourcing updates across industries & business functions. See BlogOut Directory for the complete list of categories
Labels: aircraft-maintenance, airlines, airlines-australia, airlines-oceania, offshore-manufacturing, problems
Thursday, March 8, 2007
What if the world ceases to be flat?
What if the world changes from being flat?
...asks Herb Field, a US journalist in this interesting analysis on outsourcing
"And what with everyone agreeing as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman summed it up in the title of his best-selling book, that The World is Flat, the all-American chocolate company needs to outsource its production or face the prospect of some future calamity of unknown properties and origin that could threaten its franchise.
But what if all this is wrong?
What if globalization is a short-term phenomenon? What if the world actually turns lumpy? What if the place to manufacture for the American market becomes the United States, something Toyota and other foreign companies are anticipating?..."
Read his full opinion report, Mar 07, 2007
...asks Herb Field, a US journalist in this interesting analysis on outsourcing
"And what with everyone agreeing as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman summed it up in the title of his best-selling book, that The World is Flat, the all-American chocolate company needs to outsource its production or face the prospect of some future calamity of unknown properties and origin that could threaten its franchise.
But what if all this is wrong?
What if globalization is a short-term phenomenon? What if the world actually turns lumpy? What if the place to manufacture for the American market becomes the United States, something Toyota and other foreign companies are anticipating?..."
Read his full opinion report, Mar 07, 2007
Labels: analysis, auto, auto-usa, manufacturing, manufacturing-auto, manufacturing-usa, offshore, offshore-manufacturing, usa
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