United States’ global market share In chip manufacturing has shrunk from 35% to 12% in the slow march of supply chain capability moving up the value chain in China. I point out the need for building skilled labor force.
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Lego’s revenues for 2017 are now out. In September 2017, Financial Times reported on problems at Lego, which was then planning to cut about 8% of its workforce. Indeed, Lego has been suffering from increasingly bigger global operations problems, with poor sales in Europe and North America. There have been reports of inventories piling up at distribution centers. One of the reasons attributed for Lego’s troubles is that Lego has been distracted from its core competencies, by investing in movie franchising and so on. While that is partly true, as I will explain below, Lego’s core business itself has some fundamental issues, that need to be resolved. Let’s look at some Data and I point out two issues with Lego’s Operations Planning.…
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