Here is another story of continued labor rights violations at Foxconn, which is a key player in Apple’s supply chain (click here). Do Apple’s troubles in maintainign an ethical supply chain make you less likely to buy Apple products?

Useful reference for Rosetta Net

http://www.pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2005/RosettaNet.pdf

Here is a video explaining the concept of EDI in very simple terms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFI3I8LlRI

Here are a couple of articles in NYT on outsourcing.

1. Why cost is not the only factor which affects firms’ decision on whether to outsource or not (click here).

2. Why outsourcing needs to be carefully managed, or it can be a PR disaster (click here)

Also, here is my 2-cents on this debate which was aired on KYW 1060 radio (click here)

Here is an example of the the pitfalls of collaboration – you never know who will stop collaborating. It is a game called golden balls played in Europe I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Uos2fzIJ0

What would you do if you played the game?

check out a dutch auction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CK2TatM_U

Referring back to the case assignment about the Netflix business model; a subscription fee payment for unlimited movie rental delivered via mail-order, we had addressed the question of what other industries might be able to apply a similar business model.

Not the foremost contender, runway fashion designers are now looking to begin an attempt at this by way of Rent the Runway.

There is an article  in the New York Times on the subject that you can take a look at if you are interested.

click here and select the first link

This article in Escapist Magazine, entitled the Dark Side of Direct Downloads presents an interesting example of just how much the supply chain for software and related industries has changed due to the internet.