Mihai Gutan

The Misconception of Outsourcing as Transfer of Control Outsourcing is frequently understood as a transfer of responsibility. In supply chain management, this assumption is fundamentally flawed. While execution can be outsourced, the control must remain internal, or be explicitly re-architected Failure to distinguish between execution and governance leads to: loss of visibility erosion of decision-making capability structural dependency on providers This distinction is well established in...

From Site Selection to System Design In most expansion strategies, location is treated as a discrete decision. A site is selected based on: proximity to markets labor cost infrastructure availability tax considerations This approach is incomplete. In contemporary European expansion, location is not a point decision it is the foundational layer of an operational system that will be exposed to: volatile energy markets regulatory divergence geopolitical fragmentation structural shifts in...

Most expansion initiatives do not start from zero. They start from a system that already exists, but does not fully function. From the outside, these systems often appear operational. From the inside, they are anything but. ________________________________________ The Illusion of Functionality At first glance: · products are delivered · partners are in place · structure exists Nothing appears fundamentally broken, and this creates a false sense of stability....