Porter went a step further to point out changes to global industry: the model of providing contract labor and working as OEMs that Asian countries have used for the last 20 years will not be advantageous in the future. In the past Asia was the world's principal source of the world's cheap labor, and the best choice for multinationals.
波特進一步指出今日全球產業環境的劇變：亞洲新興國家代工模式在過去二十年間無往不利，因為過去亞洲是全球唯一擁有廉價優質勞工的地區、是跨國企業的最佳選擇。