Keeping Your Business in the USA
Profit Globally While Operating Locally
Timothy J. Hutzel
Managing Director,Research
Bookshelves are overflowing with how to books that are intended to instruct or stir the imagination of the reader to achieve great things. The common problem with many of these books is that they are too theoretical. Models, diagrams, algorithms, slogans and flow charts, are like salt water to a sunbaked parched sailor - close enough to see and feel, but not capable of satisfying a burning thirst.
A burning issue that is certainly in need of a remedy is the mass departure of manufacturing from the USA to foreign countries. The results of the exodus are felt every day. As much as you would like to buy American, this has become an impossible task. It is heartbreaking and disturbing that so many products are not made domestically anymore: bicycles, clocks, garments, shoes, and computers. Just look at all the products we use every day − most are NOT made in America!
So who has been hurt by the rush to outsource? We have heard the tales of many business leaders regretting their outsourcing decisions − the unplanned costs, poor quality, uncontrolled processes, long delivery times, graft, monstrous order quantities, inventory nightmares, lost and damaged products, oversight trips overseas, confrontations, half-truths, excessive order to remittance times, and added debt.
Then there are social and national implications of outsourcing − unemployment, increased government jobs, loss of skills, weakened national defense, loss of tax base, and unbridled national debt.
Everyone is looking for the silver bullet to solve this problem. The bad news is that there is no silver bullet. The good news is that Tim Hutzel, Director of Research at MainStream, has spent the last three years researching companies that have flourished while manufacturing their products in the USA and documenting how they did it − no theoretical models to interpret, no flow diagrams to fill in, just plain and simple information.
Keeping Your Business in the USA − Profit Globally While Operating Locally will be in publication this summer. Check it out on Amazon.com by clicking HERE.