Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

But it is realistic to envision the growth of high-value-add, high-skill, high-wage manufacturing industries like the microprocessor and computer-networking businesses that Intel and Cisco launched in the 1980s. Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine.

Finance 9

Finance Due Diligence Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch).

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options. When Cisco rolls out the sensors globally, these savings will add up.

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8