Maybe 4 year old boys know something we don't. I've recently seen a few lads of this age run outside in the wee hours of the morning when the garbage trucks come and stare in exuberant wonder as...

So what if you're not the NBA in the Chinese market? (Not that NBA jerseys are flying off the shelves in China anyways). In southern China earlier this week, I had several conversations with locals about the domestic consumer market.

We're currently in the midst of several projects moving through the final design to tooling stages--a very iterative process in which companies are finalizing their product designs based on playing with prototypes, buyer/market feedback, and getting...

I saw an article in Business Week last week about Sony bringing in Executive Deputy President Yutaka Nakagawa, a proven cost-cutter, to reduce Sony's supply chain costs.  Over the next two years, the company is aiming to halve the number of its parts...

The FlipCam, by Pure Digital Technologies.  1 million units sold in the first year.  17% of the camcorder market in approximately 3 years.  Acquired by Cisco for $590mm.  Started by entrepreneurs Jonathan Kaplan and Ariel Braunstein after a failed...

When to source manufacturing offshore in a country like China, India, or Mexico?  When to keep manufacturing at home in the U.S.?  Don't start with cost:  start with strategy. Lowering costs has been the most common and highly publicized impetus...

Reason for Optimism: Panjiva's trade data reports a 7% increase in July 2009 over June 2009 in the number of global manufacturers shipping to the United States.  However, before we hail the end of the decline, it should be noted that in July...