Integrating Unprofitable Activities to Preserve Strategic Know-How

Pure economic arbitration can no longer be the sole compass for resource allocation decisions. In several industrial or craft sectors, whole sections of technically deficient activity play a structural role in the mastery of larger ensembles. Maintaining in-house skills, even at a loss, amounts to protecting levers of agility, innovation or sovereignty that are often invisible in the short term. To give up on know-how is, in many cases, to aband…