Quem se deixa dominar pelos problemas não tem tempo para apreciar as oportunidades

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"Made in America: Small Businesses Buck the Offshoring Trend":
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"For US firms, the decision to manufacture overseas has long seemed a no-brainer. Labor costs in China and other developing nations have been so cheap that as recently as two or three years ago, anyone who refused to offshore was viewed as a dinosaur, certain to go extinct as bolder companies built the future in Asia. But stamping out products in Guangdong Province is no longer the bargain it once was, and US manufacturing is no longer as expensive. As the labor equation has balanced out, companies—particularly the small to medium-size businesses that make up the innovative guts of America’s technology industry—are taking a long, hard look at the downsides of extending their supply chains to the other side of the planet.

“Companies are looking to base their decisions on more than just costs,” says Simon Ellis, head of supply-chain strategies practice at IDC Manufacturing Insights, a market research firm. “They’re looking to shorten lead times, to reduce the inventory they have to carry.” When accounting giant KPMG International recently asked 196 senior executives to list their top concerns for 2011 and 2012, labor costs ranked below product quality and fluctuations in shipping rates and currency values. And 19 percent of the companies that responded to an October survey by MFG.com, an online sourcing marketplace, said they had recently brought all or part of their manufacturing back to North America from overseas, up from 12 percent in the first quarter of 2010. This is one reason US factories managed to add 136,000 jobs last year—the first increase in manufacturing employment since 1997."
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"A January 2010 survey by the consulting firm Grant Thornton found that 44 percent of responders felt they got no benefit from going overseas, while another 7 percent believed that offshoring had actually caused them harm." (Moi ici: Lembro-me de Ventoro...(gráfico da página 16 que coloquei neste postal)").
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Se não fossemos um país socialista podíamos, neste canto ocidental da Europa, aproveitar esta boleia para criar as condições para o renascer da pequena indústria que pode servir parte da Europa... Talvez a Eslováquia o faça...
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E andam os académicos preocupados com o euro... num país que em poucos anos, com uma moeda fraca e salários baixos teve duas ajudas do FMI.