Why Apple Profits Pack Such Punch
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Quoted from this article over at BusinessWeek:
The company is expert at outsourcing the rudimentary work to suppliers and manufacturing partners. “They’re mainly in the business of defining architectures,” says Kathleen Eisenhardt, an engineering professor at Stanford University. “We’re talking about a small number of people—maybe ten—that think about how all the pieces go together. [Apple is] more the thinker bees than the worker bees, and that scales a lot better than trying to do everything yourself.”
Get the point?
While you’re over at BusinessWeek, go check this report: Why Small Tech Companies Aren’t Outsourcing. Makes you feel kinda relieved if you’re in the IT industry, but then again, only if you’re the “thinker bee”.
