Asset-light models - trend or industrial information bubble and echo chamber?

While asset-light models in the manufacturing industry can be a beneficial way to reduce costs and increase efficiency, it is important to be aware of the potential significant drawbacks. Companies should carefully evaluate their asset-light model strategy to ensure that it is cost effective and beneficial to the business. This process of evaluation should never be done from the sole perspective of opportunity cost! Just in the last 2-3 years or so, we have seen startling examples of asset-light model projects. Effect: Clients lose the possibility to create really strategic scenarios, because only tactically determined actions exist. Creativity in free fall.