How To Harvest Your Business Ecosystem and Network?
If you are as deeply passionate about the world of business and supply chain networks as I am, and enjoy exploring similar questions and coming up with answers that will help immensely in using this wisdom to build your business, then join me.
From Free Markets to Free Networks And Beyond
From free markets to free networks and beyond The story started in the 19th century with the beginning of free markets. The world of free markets is the world where business exchanges started to expand to global organizations and relationships. Many exchanges were now possible thanks to the free markets. The allocation of resources is […]
Supply Chain Partners Define Your Company
Supply Chain Partners Define Your Company because a company is known by the company it keeps
When the Ship is Sinking: Focus on Plugging the Hole in the Hull
About Ship is Sinking My sabbatical from writing blogs over the past few weeks has been interrupted. Besides my day job of consulting, I was focusing on finishing my second book “Know When to Outsource, and How to Do It Well: Outsmart, Outprofit, Outsource”. However, after reading a Harvard Business Review blog, I feel compelled […]
The Newest Supply Chain Model
In the traditional business world or Supply Chain Model, relations between organisations were different from what they are today. Collaboration between organisations – if there was collaboration – used to follow a linear model. In fact, when several organisations had to collaborate, they used to do it through a very linear model, with traditional supplier-buyer […]
This Week In America Interviews Vivek Sood on 5-STAR Business Network
Topic:The 5-STAR Business Networks Interviewer: Ric Bratton of This Week In America Interviewee: Vivek Sood of Global Supply Chain Group (author of The 5-STAR Business Networks) Here is a video of the interview: Get It Now Here is the entire transcript of the interview: Ric Bratton: Welcome back everybody! This Week In America, thank you for joining us! […]
5-STAR Business Network Radio Interview of Vivek Sood on The Michael Dresser Show
Topic:The 5-STAR Business Networks Interviewer: Michael Dresser of The Michael Dresser Show Interviewee: Vivek Sood of Global Supply Chain Group (author of The 5-STAR Business Networks) HERE IS An audio of the interview About Business Network Get It Now Here is the entire transcript of the interview: Business Network Michael Dresser: Welcome back! I’m Michael, […]
Who Hijacked Your Supply Chain?
About More Hijacked Your Supply Chain I do not publish too many posts on LinkedIn any more because of ‘Gresham’s Law‘. However, once in a while I still publish content that would be relevant to that platform. I was delivering the keynote speech at the Quintiq World Tour recently at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore – where […]
Why Collaboration in Supply Chain is the NEW Advantage?
About Collaboration in Supply Chain For decades, if not centuries, the economists have been extolling the virtues of competition. No doubt, competition unleashes forces lying dormant within human psyche – forces of of one-upmanship, jealousy, keep up with the jones, and similar nature. Of course, the economists rarely look into the psyche behind the actions […]
What Businesses Can Gain from the Transformation of Brazilian Soccer – Part 3/4
In the first blog in this series I wrote about the Brazilian soccer teams’ transformation from an individualistic style of play to a network style game. In early 90s, more than two decades since the last World Cup championship title and Brazil faced an interesting juxtaposition – continue with what led to past success of […]
