Small Business Labs

APRIL 24, 2012

Reshoring is the latest term for manufacturing returning to the U.S. from overseas.  "Insourcing", "boomeranging" and "inshoring" are also used to describe this shift. We first spotted this trend in 2007 (and yes, we are patting ourselves on the back), and it was clear by 2010 this trend was gaining momentum. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) gave reshoring a major PR boost last year with a report on this topic.  Key quote from their report: "Over the next

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 25, 2012

In case you missed it, Apple reported yet another quarter of strong sales and earnings yesterday.  Last quarter they sold 35 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads.  Not bad. So who is buying all the iPads?  Well, Bank Technology News covers this in their article The Young and the Affluent:  A Sweet Spot for Tablets.  The article reports on Tablet research conducted by the syndicated research firm Javelin.   Javelin says tablet owners are younger and wealthier

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 26, 2012

Forrester issued a report saying wearable computing is about to take off.   As we pointed out in a prior post on this topic , wearable computing is not a new trend.  For decades computing devices designed to be attached to the human body have been available.  Most of have been targeted at health and fitness.  Workout related heart rate monitors, for example, have been around since the 1980s.   Forrester believes that consumer interest in wearables for applications i

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 23, 2012

Lots of news on the Rise of Women this week.   For those new to this trend, the quick summary is that a growing set of data indicates women are out performing men in a wide range of well-being, educational and employment measures.   Recent news includes: 1.   Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations from Pew Research got a lot of attention.   They found younger women are more ambitious than younger men (see chart to the right).

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