Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2008

By now, you likely have many products that have gone through design, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, distribution, marketing, and retail, resting under your tree or being exchanged over the holidays. 

For those involved in any part of the product commercialization process, it's  interesting to consider all of the people, places, and things that came together to culminate in that wrapped box with a bow.  Ok, when I look at my HP calculator sitting on the table next to me, it's not as if I'm getting teary-eyed and sentimental over it.  But, in today's world, I can only imagine all the pieces and parts that came from different countries to make a simple consumer electronic product like this.

I imagine, if you're reading this blog, you are involved in one, a few, or all of the phases of product commercialization which I mentioned above.  I  sincerely appreciate your readership and interest.  I hope to post more entries and write more insightful and entertaining content in 2008.  Global Sourcing Specialists has quite a bit going on these days, so I will certainly have the stories, thoughts, and rants to get out to you.  Happy Holidays to all of my readers and here is to a new year in which your product finds its way into a box with a bow exchanged by millions of people at this time next year.