The global contest for industrial dominance isn’t between companies or even countries anymore. It’s between continental production systems.
Over the past two decades, China has built the most expansive manufacturing ecosystem in modern history. Twenty years ago, the United States accounted for more than twice China’s share of global manufacturing output. Today, China claims about 30 percent—roughl...
In this article, Pedro Casas Alatriste argues for a more deliberate strategy in North America that puts small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the center as engines of widespread prosperity. He suggests several approaches to strengthen SME integration into regional supply chains: developing supplier ecosystems, talent mobility programs, digitalizing supply chains, increasing access to capital investment, trusted-trader interoperability, secure logistics corridors, and expanding rules of or...