Design Outsourcing

10 Reasons to Outsource Product Design & Development
By Robert R. Andrews, Medical Division Manager, Foster-Miller, Inc.
The highly competitive medical industry requires firms to utilize every possible resource, both
internal and external, to stay ahead of the curve. While many medical device companies have
been capitalizing on the benefits of outsourced labor and manufacturing for years, only recently
have [...]

Some interesting tweets about “outsourcing”:
chris_heiler @ldesigngurl I hear ya. I’ve been outsourcing my bookkeeping to a virtual bk in Canada for about the last 10 months. I’ll never go back…
nlitenmebabe China investor finalizes deal on NBA’s Cavaliers (Reuters) : Reuters – A Michigan in.. http://bit.ly/7UWBhp [outsourcing sports??]
ttdotcom Join Matt Makowicz for ‘Everything You Ever Wanted [...]

Does this sound ridiculous?! American workers outsourcing their own personal work (and their life)!
Is this the future?

This is quite an interesting article from Time magazine about the quality of college education in the US, and how it impacts the job market. Do you think this has a direct relation to companies that outsource jobs overseas?
by Kristi Oloffson
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance [...]

Do you think that just because your business is small you can’t outsource? There are ways to send your writing, IT tasks and other needs overseas to add efficiency to your enterprise. By doing some prior planning and following some pointers, you can get the quality help you need.
Starting Out
Here are some pointers for launching [...]

If you are involved in product design, you need to understand how a product impacts on the environment. To develop truly sustainable products, you must be able to assess which design solution is environmentally preferable.
10 Guidelines for Ecodesign
1. Do not design products, but life cycles
2. Natural materials are [...]

Outsourcing has become a “charged’ word. It is an important concept to understand because of its business applications (both for corporations and for small businesses) and because of its political implications. The following is intended as a primer on the main topics related to outsourcing. We have included a (hopefully) balanced summary of the “offshoring [...]

Just about every business uses promotional products of some kind. Everything from pens, coffee mugs, caps and calendars is used to print a business logo and contact info on. You can get a little experience by working for an established promotional product design company or make the best money and start your own with a [...]

by Megan Dorn
As Director of Design for Cincinnati-based product development firm Kaleidoscope, Demetrius Romanos leads a team of multidisciplinary specialists in design, strategy and research. Over the past seven years his team has worked with clients that include Motorola, Procter & Gamble, International Trucks, Staples, Evenflo and Ethicon Endo-surgery.
Demetrius recently answered some questions for us [...]

Outsourcing — the practice of using outside firms to handle work normally performed within a company — is a familiar concept to many entrepreneurs. Small companies routinely outsource their payroll processing, accounting, distribution, and many other important functions — often because they have no other choice. Many large companies turn to outsourcing to cut costs. [...]