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Right diagnosis…..wrong prescription

Another day another story of product recalls from Chinese factories for health and quality issues, this time is 1.5 million toys for one of the worlds most renowned Toy Manufacturers Mattel’s Fisher Price division which has drawn enormous world wide media coverage and added more fire to fan the flames of the Anti-Outsourcing supporters.

Metagrobolize was created to draw attention to Best Sourcing, which may not be too popular with some of the worlds largest corporations as they ‘globe trot’ for the lowest pay scales, but takes a holistic view of the outsourcing companies requirements and endeavours to establish an offshore destination that is the best suited to both the process to be outsourced as well as the company considering to outsource.

That China is now attracting this very negative attention comes as no surprise, because outside of the largest of manufacturing companies, China’s manufacturing industry is still very immature, with little or no regulatory control. Read the rest of this entry »

My dads bigger than your dad

Reminiscent of schoolboy (do schoolgirls also do this?) playground one-upmanship, where arguments would escalate to include ‘implied’ threats of how things were going to end up if the argument continued with statements such as “My dads bigger than your dad”…and the normal response of…”well my dads in the Army”..etc etc…is now spilling over into the Outsourcing debate.

It’s almost impossible to avoid the buzz of articles with commentaries comparing countries against each other in their ‘suitability’ for offshore outsourcing. Singapore claims to be better than Malaysia (Nothing new in that and vice versa) the new kid on the block Vietnam claiming to be bigger and better than its South East Asian ‘peer group’ countries and Russia doing all it can to drop its playground bully image with promises to be a good boy and far more friendly in future. Read the rest of this entry »

Hilary hits out at outsourcing

The run up to the American election is possibly the most ‘populist’ driven election in the world, where candidates try to pander to, or placate every minority in the hope that this will swing the majority vote their way (As well as earning sizeable chunks of money towards their electoral campaigns from the lobbyists who asked the candidates to speak out for their interest groups in the first place)

The old chestnuts now (yep its six years ago since 9/11) are of course American homeland security, various racial issues and immigration, however the issue of Outsourcing in America is guaranteed to get candidates a deal of exposure and support in the industrial heartlands of the US.

A recent speech from Senator Hillary Clinton last week to the Indian Institute of Technology contained the following comments Read the rest of this entry »