The Nike child labor controversy surfaced in a 1996 Life magazine story and consumer outrage prompted big changes in the way Nike manages its global supply chain and all this took some time. In contrast, the New York Times story on labor practices at the Chinese supplier factories of Apple of just two weeks agoContinue reading “Apple: when US customers demand better treatment of Chinese workers in the global supply chain”
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Post-911: Innovation,B2B Marketing and Supply Chain have gone global
The ten years since 911 has made America much more globalized than ever before. Today you are likely to see some international news in every TV news program as a discernible increase in the global nature of food in food courts across America! Here is how innovation,B2B marketing and the supply chain have gone global:Continue reading “Post-911: Innovation,B2B Marketing and Supply Chain have gone global”
Competing in a knowledge economy: Thomas Friedman on Innovation -but how ?
Friedman's new book with Mandelbaum extols Americans to innovate at every level to get back to the growth and prosperity path. The question is how? Every one is in a "locked" in mode – locked in to the supply chain and distribution channel and of course to the production process."Lockedin"worked till about the late 1990'sContinue reading “Competing in a knowledge economy: Thomas Friedman on Innovation -but how ?”
US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?
Where can US Innovation lead to jobs is a question on everyone's minds. A clue is from today's stock rally, spurred in part by the Fusion-io IPO, after six days of stock market losses. Fusion-io makes flash memory storage and its largest customer is Facebook who use their infrastructure to manage all those millions ofContinue reading “US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?”
German E. Coli outbreak and regulating a global fresh food supply chain
The German E. Coli outbreak seems to be one of the first fresh food global supply chain problems that have come to the fore. Germany imports 40% of its cucumbers from Spain a total of 182,000 tonnes a year. Initially, German authorities blamed Spanish cucumber contamination for the deadly outbreak and now the Germans areContinue reading “German E. Coli outbreak and regulating a global fresh food supply chain”
Innovation research: why you don’t need a heart attack to qualify as a cardiologist
Today's Businessweek piece by Maddock and Louis Viton on how education and professors might not do much for innovation made me smile. Because this is exactly how I thought before becoming an academic from being a hands on manager. The logic is like going to a doctor whose qualification must include having your illness. TheContinue reading “Innovation research: why you don’t need a heart attack to qualify as a cardiologist”
Moving intellectual property including patents, computer code and trade secrets overseas for lower taxes
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WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available
The latest round of WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday (November 2010) is ironic. Cyber Monday got its name from early days of the Internet when folks would go to work on the weekend after Thanksgiving and use the high speed office broadband for Internet shopping for Christmas and the holidays.Now the Cyber Monday deals start onContinue reading “WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available”
Ahead of President Obama India visit- India signs IAEA treaty to limit nuclear accident liability to operators
The Indian nuclear power equipment market is estimated (October 2010) at 175 Billion $ and both GE and Westinghouse are very interested in supplying nuclear power equipment. Worrying potential US suppliers, Indian lawmakers in August had passed a law that might have made equipment suppliers liable for 80 years in case there was an accident and faulty equipment was to blame. Obviously the memories of Bhopal don’t fade and a nuclear leak like Chernobyl would be catastrophic in densely populated India.
[Note: This post is from October 27, 2010 and was edited for formatting on May 22, 2021]
Housing market woes reflect slow jobs and underlyng slow income as US home based call center outsourcing takes off
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