Wake Up, Manufacturing, You’re Late
Did you know that most stuff is manufactured? I didn’t! I thought most stuff springs, fully formed, into packages, and materializes on the shelves of our local dry goods stores. I kid, I kid. Of course...
View ArticleNortel: Casualty of Outsourcing or Cyber Espionage?
The polemic over outsourcing manufacturing to China received plenty of attention after the final presidential debate. But while this issue may weigh heavily on Americans who are out of work, its impact...
View ArticleShipping Outsourced Jobs Back Home
When General Electric's Appliance Park was first conceived, more than likely its designers hoped it would be the embodiment of American ingenuity and prosperity. Unfortunately, they were wrong. For the...
View ArticleChanging Tides in IT Outsourcing
While outsourcing in the manufacturing sector sends sparks flying among politicians, IT outsourcing for services such as cloud is booming without so much as a peep from Capitol Hill. One point key to...
View ArticleThe Cloud Settles Over Manufacturing
Expensive investments in industrial equipment aside, the cost of IT alone has been a barrier to entry for small organizations looking to enter the manufacturing sector. But now, with the proliferation...
View Article6 Strategies for Outsourcing IoT
No movement has shaken up the tech industry quite like the Internet of Things. Building machine-to-machine (M2M) devices is arguably the most complicated level of development right now because most...
View ArticleCloud Adopters Balancing Cost Savings, Security
Cloud security vendors are betting that more enterprises are looking to outsource their security operations just as they have turned over management of parts of their IT infrastructure to public cloud...
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