We have a problem with wanting to start with a bang. No culture of starting small and growing.
On Friday, 15 February 2013, Kivuva wrote:
Phares, I'm a great proponent of local industrialization. It does a
lot of good to a countries economy, number one being reducing capital
flight.
But the scenario is this, UoN have said they have prototypes that are
viable, but they don't have any means to produce them. Now, if we can
crack it and do it locally, that's the best move. But suppose those
strategic investors don't show up? Should the idea just die out and we
remain mass consumers, or should we outsource manufacturing/licence
the prototype to Asian and have a piece of the cake?
On 15/02/2013, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
> Manufacturing locally would absorb quite a number of semi skilled
> individuals into the workforce. Always a good thing.
>
> Outsourcing is not always a good idea. Check what happened to Dell & ASUS.
> Even the all mighty Apple Inc & Samsung.
>
> Let's make them. Lets sell them. Lets figure out supply chain for the
> greater East African region. Then we can tinker with other electronics.
>
> We have the capacity. Why not do it?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 15 Feb 2013, at 17:30, Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:
>
> I dream when we will have outsourced manufacturing jobs overseas, and have
> big companies like Apple, HP, here in Kenya, then earn foreign exchange on
> the distribution and sells all over the world. But it sounds like a pipe
> dream.
>
> US is not suffering from outsourcing since the companies earn abnormal
> profits from that. Only the poor jobless hands-man is the one who suffers.
>
> But here in Kenya, we have non. No manufacturing companies outsourcing to
> Asia, and no outsourced jobs coming back home.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> On 15 February 2013 15:38, <peres_were@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> +1 Ali. I noted in Obama's State of the Union Address a new initiative
>> the
>> US govt is setting up called "Manufacturing Innovation Hubs" aimed at
>> spurring innovation in Manufacturing.
>>
>> In addition, a number of US companies such as Apple and Ford are bringing
>> back manufacturing to the USA.
>>
>> Peres
>> Sent from my BlackBerry®
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