Does America Really Need Manufacturing?
Nearly every product company believes its long-term success depends on innovation. However, executives who view manufacturing mainly as a cost center have given “short shrift” to the impact that off-shoring may have on their company’s capacity to innovate.
In fact, few consider manufacturing to be part of a company’s “innovation system” at all. The result has been an exodus of manufacturing from the United States.
As Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue in.....