If corporations are going to offshore and outsource products, components and ingredients, then it is back to basics.
Plexus, based in Neenah, Wisc., outsources product development and design for networking, industrial and government companies.
Grid computing is the logical next step on the road of the IT market to ubiquitous connectivity, virtualization, service outsourcing, product commoditization, and globalization.
Unlike software services, where companies such as TCS, Infosys have much longer runways before they are disrupted (because customers still depend on low cost outsourcing), products are a different ball game.
Unlike some other direct-to-consumer, custom-framing startups that outsource their products, Framebridge handles all of its own production.
Honchos in all sorts of industries have long studied keynote speeches by Steve Jobs, Apple's boss, for ways to cast spells on audiences; now they also need to work out how he outsourced his product marketing to an entire nation of volunteers.In this section A high-speed revolution The diddle kingdom No ketchup, please A change of tune Where would Jesus queue?
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in job-shop machining are experiencing more shop-floor uncertainties today than ever before, due to multi-tier outsourcing, customised product demands and shortened product lifecycle.
"We've never thought about outsourcing our products, because our customers don't want a Meridian speaker made in China," Mr. Stuart said.
Contract firms now manufacture nearly 16% of electronic goods, compared with less than 10% in 1998, according to Technology Forecasters, a Californian consultancy.Whose box is it?The standardisation of many of the bits that go into electronic products has made it much easier to outsource an entire product line, rather than just components.
