Industrial Age Tools vs Information Age Weapons
This is the part 2 of my earlier post What I Learnt Fighting Pirates (Not in the Caribbean)! (that post was getting too long, so I had to break it into two parts). Industrials Supply Chain I asked bosun to send a repelling party to cut the ladder and the scrambling rope, while I sent two […]
What Data You Got is Not As Important as What you Do With It
First let me start with a story. I have some personal experience in 1990 with this ancient mariners’ rhyme: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere: Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, […]
Amazon Supply Chain Business | Shipping Items Before You Order
Amazon Supply Chain Business 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: Latest Leap Of Amazon Supply Chain Business “Based on previous orders, product searches, wish lists, shopping cart contents and other online customer experiences, […]
5-STAR Business Network – A Company is Known by the Company it Keeps
5-star Business Network I am always amused to see the starry eyed stories of success of the companies in the business press. Many of the stories do not go deep into the real reasons for that success or to trace how transitory it can be, if those reasons disappear. It was not that long ago […]
Who Will ‘Dellify’ the Mobile Phone Industry?
Supply Chain Mobile Phone industry Dellify (verb) – the process of changing a mobile phone industry model from high cost, low flexibility, make-to-stock model to a low cost, high flexibility make-to-order model. Before Michael Dell started his business from the college dorm, computer industry followed a very different model. It was been nearly 30 years, […]
A Good Supply Chain but What Does it take to Go to Great?
Good Supply Chain VS Great Supply Chain Management It is only natural that many companies today want to go from good to great in Supply Chain. 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 […]
How Supply Chain is the New Electricity & Why SCM is Needed?
How Supply Chain is the New Electricity & Why SCM is Needed? About Supply Chain Management 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 […]
Business Transformations- The Second Big Mistake
Business Transformations- The Second Big Mistake In this article, I want to focus on the second biggest mistake companies make during business transformations. In case you are wondering why I am focusing on the second biggest mistake rather than the biggest one – it is because I have already written a blog post on that […]
Is Supply Chain Management Mysterious or not?
Is Supply Chain Management Mysterious or not? I have been asked this question a lot on Quora, as well as on my board and in other speeches. A lot of supply chain commentary is becoming too technical and mysterious. Supply Chain Software sellers have a vested interest in creating the mystique –similar to what McKinsey […]
Real Supply Chain Experts- High Demand But Lower Supply
Real Supply Chain Experts- High Demand But Lower Supply Good solid supply chain thinkers are in high demand and low supply. I would know, I run a company called Global Supply Chain Group for the last 17 years. It appears that it was not too long ago (when we formed this company) – most business […]
