In my last column I talked about how a company's success will increasingly be determined by their ability to manage assets as they outsource various manufacturing processes.
Companies outsource to get reliable components as cheaply and quickly as possible.
This inevitably gets them involved in international business, because the company that is able to provide those goods in a timely fashion , might be located in another country. One country is Taiwan . Even US companies like Tyan have manufacturing facilities in Taiwan. At one time or another, one of these products from Taiwan have found their way into a Dell , a Gateway , a Compaq , a Mitac , a Datamini , an Aris , a Digitek and the generic computers you can find in Sim Lim Square. We've all heard about the earthquakes and the aftershocks that have rocked Taiwan recently.