Author Archives: Lisa Reisman

I was speaking with a private equity firm today who is considering setting up an Asian sourcing operation. This firm has investments in about half a dozen small to mid-sized industrial product companies. What struck me as interesting was not the fact that private equity firms get “strategic sourcing” but that everybody thinks it is really easy to set up a sourcing organization in Asia. What most firms fail to realize is that the communication barriers between the West and … More →