When Product Engineering Doesn’t Fulfill Its Two Primary Roles and Instead Steps into Re-Sourcing, They Become a Significant Obstacle to Re-Sourcing of Manufacturing Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner |...
When the Company’s Product Engineering Function Resists Near-Shoring to Protect Its Current Way of Doing Business Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 10 min read The case for near-shoring has gained...
A Resilient Supply Chain Is Defined by Its Ability to Either Mitigate or Quickly Recover from Disruptions Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 8 min read In the last 3 years,...
The Recent Melt Down of Southwest Airlines Is a Case Study of Over-Optimization of a System in Which Cost Has Been Driven Down and There Are No Redundancies or Buffers...
There Is No Such Thing as a Technical Change that Does Not Have Impacts on the Social Fabric of an Organization Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 15 min read “Change...
The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophes Occur at the Intersection of Ambition and Desperation Written By Jeffrey Cartwright, Shoreview Managing Partner | 8 min read China has emerged spectacularly from being a technologically backward, poverty-driven backwater...
In an era of increasing economic disruption, intellectual property protection laws in Mexico safeguards companies’ most precious asset. Guest Post By Michael Dillon, Novalink | 10 min read Innovation does not exist...
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne Provides a Framework with which to Review Most Manufacturers in Mexico By Jeffery Cartwright, Shoreview Advisors | 10 min readThe...
Near Shoring Options in Mexico By Jeffery Cartwright, Shoreview Advisors | 10 min readOften when we start talking with a company that is looking to near shore their manufacturing, we’re...
When North American companies have failed to successfully negotiate a re-shore of their manufacturing to Mexico, more often than not, it’s due to a lack of understanding in the negotiation...
By Jeffery Cartwright, Managing Partner of Shoreview Advisors | 12 min read In working with both Chinese and Mexican manufacturing companies over many years, we have identified key differences in the...
By John Hyatt, Member of MSSA and Shoreview | 10 min read When a firm elects Mexico as a new manufacturing frontier, a myriad of cultural phenomena come into play that...