by Radu Magdin

CEO of Smartlink Communications. Global analyst, consultant and trainer, passionate about leadership, global communications and competition.

Whether it’s the “Alt-Asia” phenomenon, the friend-shoring trend, the revamped push toward in-sourcing, or slowbalization, it’s somewhat self-evident that global trade is being rewired. Often, at the forefront of that rewiring stand family business that can have the operational flexibility to make highly consequential decisions with limited board approval. For example, Samsung today produces about half its smartphones in Vietnam.

Likewise, at the forefront of that rewiring stand a few nodes in global supply chains that have the right geography and foresight to use it by creating the legal, economic and financial conditions that enable them to act as intermediaries and facilitators for business, family business and non-family business alike.

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