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TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE

Every now and again, major companies through statements and actions show their true colours.

Kevin Myer of the ‘lean’ manufacturing blog: Evolving Excellence, identified a couple of articles on page 14 of May 14th’s issue of Rubber News (I’m not going to question his reading habits and I’m sure his wife understands. Apologies Kevin if you’re not married, and perhaps if you’re not, your reading habits may have something to do with that)

The first being General Motors (GM) looking for potential suppliers, and the second on how Honda and Toyota prefer to work ‘with’ their suppliers.

The GM story begins with,

“General Motors’ global expansion will require better suppliers”, according to Bo Andersson, the auto maker’s purchasing chief. The Indian, Chinese, Russian and other markets opening up to GM, he said, will pay off for suppliers who achieve better collaboration with the auto maker. Read the rest of this entry »

David (S) V Goliath

As I how now become a part of the vibrant blogoshpere landscape in Malaysia, it is appropriate that I at least give some comment to the Malaysian government’s attitude to towards this powerful vehicle of freedom of expression and freedom of speech, something that does not always sit comfortably with Asian politics and culture.

Malaysia can boast many powerful arguments for the consideration of foreign investment (FDI) and the stability of its elected government ranks very highly amongst them, just take a look at Malaysia’s neighbours such as Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia and its not difficult to understand what makes Malaysia and Singapore the most risk adverse options.

The former and incumbent administrations recognise this and Malaysia has enjoyed a period of political stability for the past 30 years. Read the rest of this entry »