WSJ reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturer of silicon chips, would spend $12 billion to build a chip factory in Arizona. I have been arguing on this blog for sourcing suppliers closer to the customer…
Lego’s revenues for 2017 are now out. In September 2017, Financial Times reported on problems at Lego, which was then planning to cut about 8% of its workforce. Indeed, Lego has been suffering from increasingly bigger global operations problems, with poor sales…
How to think about the role of Artificial Intelligence in Operations? Many people talk up AI, IoT, automation, etc, as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (following steam power, electricity, and computerization). Here is an example. I am more persuaded by the…
Here is a New York Times article by Farah Stockman that focuses on the story of a steelworker Shannon Mulcahy who had to go through the unenviable task of training her replacements when her job was outsourced to Mexico. It is…