« Blue Ocean Strategy | Main | Taxonomy Observations »

August 17, 2005

Can we compete with India and China?

Interesting article on the subject of competing with the emerging service providers.

Three million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past half-decade, so by the ruler method 6 million more will go poof in the coming 10 years. The U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China has been growing 20% a year, so the ruler says it should surpass a trillion bucks by 2015. By straight-line projection, China stands to trounce Detroit in autos and Silicon Valley in infotech, while India captures software and high finance. That would leave Americans to export raw materials, colony-style, and give each other haircuts

Read the Article

Posted by Todd at August 17, 2005 5:28 PM

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.rtodd.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/5

Copyright © 2002 - 2005 - R. Todd Stephens, Ph.D. All rights reserved.