Archive for June 15th, 2004
Business Outsourcing to Small Town America
WSJ Career Journal: “By moving out of major cities to less-populous areas in the U.S., where real estate and labor are cheap, some companies find they can save millions of dollars. And productivity gains are often palpable. Many small towns have lost a major manufacturing plant and are still home to an eager labor force. [...]
The Big Picture: Some naming errors: “PepsiCo’s ‘Sierra Mist’ drink would never work in Germany, because ‘Mist’ in German means ‘manure.’ The car industry has a history of such blunders: General Motors’ car ‘LaCrosse’ is a term for self-gratification among teenagers in French-speaking Canada, the Chevy ‘Nova’ could be mistaken to mean ‘doesn’t run’ in [...]
Dan Sherman is just full of ideas. Here’s his most recent one about a luxury cinema business: Why not create a cinema experience for the well-to-do? Build a one screen theater (or renovate one of the old downtown style theaters), put luxurious leather, reclining seats in it that are spaced nicely so you’re not sharing [...]
OS COmmerce Experts: “In contrast to unfilled niches, poorly filled niches are exceedingly common. With so much that you can expect from the Internet, it is extremely frustrating to actually find something not available online — when you know that people out there are aware that the need exists. There may be sites out there [...]
CNBC: “Execs grab headlines for soaring profits or sordid crimes, but rarely for wretched performance. Here are three who’ve run great companies into the ground: AT&T’s David Dorman, Hewlett-Packard’s Carly Fiorina, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison.”
Carnival of the Capitalists is up, a day late, at Accidental Verbosity.
