What a wild ride it's been at Lego.  First in mid-2006 Bill told us about their initial decisions to outsource manufacturing. The only trick the ponies from McKinsey know is outsourcing, which is exactly what [CEO] Jørgen Vig Knudstorp did.  The work in the U.S. plant in Connecticut is being sent...

If you’re looking for a new idea in fasteners, the UFO Ballistic NailScrew might be the newest show in town — you drive ‘em in with a nail gun, and if you ever want to remove ‘em, you can just unscrew ‘em.  Just to let you know:  My grandfather had this idea first.  ...

When you live in Russia everything about IT outsourcing is something you can not ignore as many people around you earn their money off IT services rendered to customers from abroad. And of course it is even more so for people in India and even in China: looking to cut development costs many companie...

Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously...

Word reached me through the grapevine that Facebook has altered its terms of service (that legalese you don’t read when you sign up) to essentially grant itself a perpetual and all-encompassing right to use any content you upload to the site for all time, even when you delete your account: You...

Actually my good friend Veronica Preotu beats me to it , but since I think it is important I believe an additional shout is in order. It has been a couple of months since I let my subscription lapse on the Economist, for no particularly reason really. I simply did not remember to log on to their sit...

Will a JoBro have to go? (Ad Age reports a "source's" modest proposal to cut costs by eliminating the least cute Jonas Brother. Also, a discussion of which Disney tween queen will reign supreme after "Hannah Montana" makes her exit. And Miley may be in hot water for striking an offensive pose) (Ad A...

Top UK law firm Osborne Clarke has outsourced a significant portion of its support services ("Middle Office") to Integreon.  The Osborne Clarke press release explains “Osborne Clarke (OC) today announced a unique and innovative response to client demands for greater efficiency from the le...

After 30 long years of Reagan-inspired hatred of government services, we're seeing the policies come to their logical conclusion. Because we didn't so much cut the size of government as we outsourced it. Most people are oblivious to the fact that large numbers of government social services were simp...

To mark the relaunch of the Editors Weblog and the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog, the World Editors Forum is running a special series entitled "Doing More with Less." The series highlights major trends that editors-in-chief are using to steer their newsrooms through the difficult economic...