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Answer Upon - Warming to Global Competition: Why We Think Too Much About China
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- Growing technological expertise - 360,000 new engineers per year join China's workforce
- Low wages for both skilled and unskilled labor - Fortune Magazine (Dec. 6/04) cites 39 cents per hour for industry laborers, $2,000 per month for design engineers, and $20 per month for general laborers
- China is experiencing more than 10% growth per year
- At the same time, hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing in North America
- Fortune 1000 companies are being bought up or heavily invested in by Chinese companies
- Natural resource and energy prices are skyrocketing, in part because of increased global demand
China seems to have become a world economic power practically overnight. As we woke up to the new environment, market pressures had increased at a phenomenal rate and our margins were spiraling downwards out of sight.
As with any change we think is outside of our control, our natural reaction is fear. The resulting panic can stimulate business leaders into a range of knee jerk reactions. Prices are cut, people are laid off, operations are moved offshore, and some businesses even give up. We rationalize these short-term decisions as solutions but, in reality, they only delay the inevitable. We are caught trying to buy time in the hope that the crisis will go away.
If we were to stand back and look at the situation more calmly, we would see alternatives and opportunitie
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China seems to have become a world economic power practically overnight. As we woke up to the new environment, market pressures had increased at a phenomenal rate and our margins were spiraling downwards out of sight.
As with any change we think is outside of our control, our natural reaction is fear. The resulting panic can stimulate business leaders into a range of knee jerk reactions. Prices are cut, people are laid off, operations are moved offshore, and some businesses even give up. We rationalize these short-term decisions as solutions but, in reality, they only delay the inevitable. We are caught trying to buy time in the hope that the crisis will go away.
If we were to stand back and look at the situation more calmly, we would see alternatives and opportuniti
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China seems to have become a world economic power practically overnight. As we woke up to the new environment, market pressures had increased at a phenomenal rate and our margins were spiraling downwards out of sight.
As with any change we think is outside of our control, our natural reaction is fear. The resulting panic can stimulate business leaders into a range of knee jerk reactions. Prices are cut, people are laid off, operations are moved offshore, and some businesses even give up. We rationalize these short-term decisions as solutions but, in reality, they only delay the inevitable. We are caught trying to buy time in the hope that the crisis will go away.
If we were to stand back and look at the situation more calmly, we would see alternatives and opportuniti
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As with any change we think is outside of our control, our natural reaction is fear. The resulting panic can stimulate business leaders into a range of knee jerk reactions. Prices are cut, people are laid off, operations are moved offshore, and some businesses even give up. We rationalize these short-term decisions as solutions but, in reality, they only delay the inevitable. We are caught trying to buy time in the hope that the crisis will go away.
If we were to stand back and look at the situation more calmly, we would see alternatives and opportuniti
A manufacturing company with 120 staff historically bought their company vehicles from the local dealer who offered excellent service, choice and most importantly a large discount. The quantity of cars required at this stage was six and two vans, which they purchased from ex-demonstration stock.The company was experiencing a surge in production and as a result they had to manage cash flow tightly as expenditure on meeting the production deadlines was going out long before the products were being paid for. As a result the financial team looked at the accounts and decided to look at cost cutting across the business to sustain the cash until they g
If we were to stand back and look at the situation more calmly, we would see alternatives and opportunities to actually transform our businesses to renewed levels of success. Quick solutions are usually not solutions at all. They are, all too often, highly visible indicators that we are desperate.
There are no miracles without 'sweat equity'. We have to thoroughly understand the competitive situation and develop solid plans that work for the long term rather than simply give us a temporary blip in stock value. It's just not good enough to say we tried but failed.
The question from business leaders is - how do we compete with low labor costs, a seemingly unlimited supply of labor, a highly educated workforce, rapidly increasing costs of commodities and resources as well as a competitor poised to become the economic power worldwide?
The first thing we have to realize is that our competitor shares many of the same pressures that we ourselves feel. To paraphrase George Santayana, "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it." We have to remember that Japan, post World War 2, had a huge but fleeting advantage based on low labor costs and low-tech mass production. It doesn't last. There is always another country or group of companies waiting to come at you the same way.
So what happened with Japan? Their companies and government brought in experts (remember Deming and Juran) and worked out how they could increase quality and technical expertise without sacrific
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