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If you walk into a department store today, you are probably talking to a guy who is untrained; he was selling vacuum cleaners yesterday, and now he is in the apparel section. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance. .” receive stock options and health insurance.
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reshoring train that so many predicted has yet to leave the station.” Vietnam has absorbed the lion’s share of China’s manufacturing outflow, especially in apparel. Reshoring phenomenon, once viewed by many as the leading edge of a decisive shift in global manufacturing, may actually have been just a one-off aberration. Kearney U.S.
reshoring train that so many predicted has yet to leave the station.” Vietnam has absorbed the lion’s share of China’s manufacturing outflow, especially in apparel. Reshoring phenomenon, once viewed by many as the leading edge of a decisive shift in global manufacturing, may actually have been just a one-off aberration. Kearney U.S.
In most cases, that budget level produces a small innovation team that may be doing some concept development work, trend scouting, or training employees on innovation methodologies — but isn’t having a broad impact on the company.
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