All Roads Lead to China:

A few years back, the Director of Sustainable Sourcing for a large electronics firms told me “I just want to get our Chinese suppliers to the point where I can trust them.  That they will do the work without constant supervision”.  It was before the age of lead paint barbie dolls, and to the best [...]

A number of articles lately have focused on the economic sustainability of the outsourcing model in China.  The articles in many ways are simply the same as others that have popped up in the past. With one exception. In the past, when the question of China’s outsourcing model being asked, it was nearly always framed [...]

Couple of articles came out this week that had me thinking about the speed by which trust in China can be lost, and the impacts that this lose of faith can have on China. It was an issue that was a hot topic in 2008 through the “Made in China” product safety scandal offered up [...]