Chain Reaction Podcast The Hollow Corporation
Outsourcing can look like pure progress until you realize you outsourced your ability to recover. I’m Tony Hines, and I’m unpacking the “Hollow Corporation” idea: organizations that keep a small strategic core while pushing manufacturing, logistics, IT, HR, procurement, and even R&D out to an extended network of partners. Done right, it creates speed, flexibility, and global reach. Done wrong, it creates dependency, fragility, and the slow loss of institutional memory. We trace where hol…