Arrow CEO on global design headaches
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Charles Cooper Former Executive Editor / News
Charles Cooper was an executive editor at CNET News. He has covered technology and business for more than 25 years, working at CBSNews.com, the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet.
Arrow Electronics CEO Bill Mitchell in a Q&A with Electronic News has a good take on the tsuris that goes along with managing a design process spanning multiple continents.
"ItÂ’s not as simple as it used to be. Now you design something here, prototype it elsewhere, redesign it, and it may go to multiple other places to production and then maybe to even other production locations...It goes from Japan to China to Southeast Asia, or from the United States or Europe to all those places and others. ItÂ’s every possibility you can think of."