Geert De Lombaerde

1 week ago | industryweek.com | Robert Schoenberger |Anna Smith |Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde

Making products and selling them is so 20th Century. It’s as backwards as manufacturing your goods in your own facilities instead of sourcing everything to sometimes-unreliable global supply chains. No, smart, modern companies know that as-a-service is where it’s at. Why own anything when you can shift all capital expenditures to operating line items?

3 weeks ago | industryweek.com | Jill Jusko |Geert De Lombaerde |Anna Smith |Ryan Secard

With all of the recent talk about reshoring production to the United States, many companies have complained about not being able to find local suppliers, especially in certain high-tech industries dominated by companies from China. Thanks to more than a decade of state-sponsored investments, China controls much of the market for powerful batteries needed for electric vehicles, starting with the raw materials needed to produce them.