Globalisation – Big Solution That We Need for Today’s Big Problems
About Globalisation No matter which country you look at today – you see big problems. Emerging problems are currently grappling with massive monetary expansionism triggered by a need to keep currency stability in face of periodic bouts of Quantitative Easings. Learn More About Globalisation For example see the article “Rajan Warns of Policy Breakdown as Emerging […]
Amazon Shipping Items Before you Order it: Creepy or Savvy?
Amazon Shipping of Supply Chain After delivery drones, Amazon has created yet another news sensation! This time with predictive shipping and patenting it. In this article, Cathy Morrow Robertson describes Amazon’s latest leap: “Based on previous orders, product searches, wish lists, shopping cart contents and other online customer experiences, Amazon has received a patent for what it […]
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW
Supply Chain 3.0 Is Real When I explain to people that supply chain 3.0 is real, in general, I get three type of responses. Most of the McKinsey (or their clone) trained strategists ask me to show data to back up this assertion. On the other hand, more intuitive executives (mainly from sales and marketing […]
Supply Chain Segmentation – The Next Step in Delivering What you Promise in Digital Marketing
Trust & Care – Two Hallmarks of Supply Chain Segmentation Supply Chain Segmentation Drives Today’s Digital Marketing – This is how I explained the situation to a group of a senior executives of the company I was consulting to recently. The profitability was falling, and customers were abandoning the company (I cannot go into too […]
The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results
Rare Art Supply Chain I was in a meeting with one of my clients who was one of the top 3 executives in a large company, and he was telling me his experience from a recent corporate retreat, where 24 of their top managers had gone in for a strategic planning session for three days […]
How To Find a Supply Chain Job
Supply Chain Job This blog post is relatively small and simple. Yet, as you will see, it is of immense use to anyone in today’s world. I do not want to make it any more complicated than necessary. My friend Tony has a recession proof career. No matter what happens to the economy, or to […]
Supply Chain is the New Electricity For Today’s Business
Supply Chain is the New Electricity Recently I did a small but quite interesting thought experiment with one of my sons. We were discussing the invention of electricity and he asked me: “Dad, what would happen if there was no electricity?” Since I actually had such an experience, I recounted to him my life in […]
Supply Chain Excellence – Go Good to Great in Supply Chain – Vivek Sood
Great in Supply Chain Management It is only natural that many companies today want to go from good to great in Supply Chain Excellence. It takes a lot of effort to go from good to great in any field of endeavour. It takes even more discipline and technique, than the effort. But, there is another […]
These Global Business Network Winners Know – ‘The Game Has Changed Again.’
These Global Business Network Winners Know When I explain to people that supply chain 3.0 is real, in general, I get three type of responses. 1. Most of the McKinsey (or their clone) trained strategists ask me to show data to back up this assertion. 2. On the other hand, more intuitive executives (mainly from […]
Understanding and Using Resistance – in Business Transformations Using SCM 3.0
19 years ago, when studying for MBA, our Professor in Change Management, Dexter Dunphy told us that Change Management is nothing but management of downside. How Much Do You Know about Understanding And Using Resistance? I understood that his point was every change has a downside – and as a change manager, the most important […]
