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Searching for an edge

May 31, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

Most people agree that China is losing its labor cost edge. So what will be the country’s next competitive advantage? In a surprising announcement in May 2011, luxury handbag manufacturer Coach said that it would transfer at least half of its production facilities from China to countries like India, Vietnam and the Philippines where the […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Best Practice, Branding, Chinese Economy, Consumers, Know China, Manufacturing, Marketing Tagged With: Branding, Brands, Consumers, Shopping

The Future of Work: Hello robot, goodbye worker

May 31, 2012 By Bennett Voyles

How will the progress of IT and automation change the future of work? In 1988, Harvard Business School Professor Shoshana Zuboff predicted that the working world was on the verge of a revolution in which many jobs would be “informated”-automated and computerized in ways that would greatly extend human capacities even as it dumbs-down the […]

Filed Under: 2012, All Articles, Connections, Digital Economy, Emerging Economies, Employment, Finance, Innovation, Know China, Manufacturing, Technology Tagged With: Automation, Foxconn, Hal Varian, Internet of Things, Labor, Manufacturing, Robotics

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