You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
Here is my full answer to the Profile Question. As you can see, the correct answer requires more than 150 characters:You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
I need to have an inventory of what is currently made, and consider the relative strength and profitability of all current contracts. I will then hire a team of market analysts to find market gaps with unfulfilled demand. Then, based on the cost of engineers and manufacturing of new presses, we will decide in committee of pursuing these new markets will be worth the additional cost.
I will then consider and reject moving the manufacturing plant to the United States, opting for the cheaper labor at the factory's current location. Taking up religion and donating to surface philanthropies will both ease my conscience and get my name out there for future plaques at awards banquets, where I can mingle with other wealthy socialites and achieve new plastics contracts and government tax breaks (depending on the particular third world country this factory is located in).
I will most likely never visit the factory floor or purcahse on of my own products, as plastic is a substance for commoners. My goods will be constructed of the finest materials available, such as ivory or oak, so it won't really behoove me to understand what it is my factory produces, as long as the checks keep rolling in.
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Pez dispensers with character heads based on the old 80's cartoon Thundercats.
posted by Chris W. @ 8:24 AM
