Chinese and Japanese are as similar as British and Portugese!

Top 10 mistakes made in offshore manufacturing With international offshoring numbers impossible to count, we know only that the trend of offshore production is increasing, with no end in sight. Though thousands of companies begin an offshoring program every year, it’s astonishing to hear some of the horror stories and the large amount of dissatisfaction. [...]

The Chinese yuan is under fire from the United States and its allied world economists. Brilliant men and women with doctorates have decided that China’s trade imbalance will get so large that the only way to control it is to let the yuan become stronger. The logic works like this: For example, if 10 yuan [...]

Don’t compare business to Football. It’s more like Ice Hockey. The puck is constantly in motion This week’s one liner, Posted by our Road Scholar

How to choose right executive for overseas work The Denver Business Journal – May 25, 2007 by Bill Decker In organizations, doing international business often is considered a perk. It’s perceived as exciting and even sexy to go to meetings in Paris, check out suppliers in India, negotiate with partners in Brussels and source talent [...]

” When measuring markets, we need to understand which industries are being discussed. The Cheese market in Greece (7 million people) is larger than China’s (1.3 billion) . This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.

” The first question you need to ask is: Do I want market share or profit share? This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.

” There are as many ways to buy a business are there are ways to buy a chicken; with feathers, alive, cut up, cooked, or even in a bucket” This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.