A recent article in an engineering publication outlined some of the contemporary developments in car manufacturing, most notably that Western car manufacturers today really do very little “manufacturing”. Instead they have transitioned to become what might best be...
For traditional UK manufacturing companies the outsourcing of activities overseas has had a number of evolutionary impacts. Manufacturing itself has almost become “commoditized” in many sectors, and is less of a core competence for many erstwhile Western...
“You lost, Mugabe—so I’ll be back”. That was the headline in the World News section of The Sunday Times of 4th May. And the week before that the same section of the same newspaper carried a different headline on the on-going situation in Zimbabwe. In fact, over the...
“Major multinational companies are increasingly outsourcing or offshoring their manufacturing operations and business processes to Africa, and these companies are benefiting from ensuing significant reductions in their direct costs; in some cases by as much as 50...
