The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results
The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results I was in a meeting with one of my clients who was one of the top 3 executives in a large company, The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results and he was telling me his experience from a recent corporate retreat, where 24 of […]
How to Maximise Both Supply Chain Efficiency And Effectiveness At The Same Time
In his book The 5-STAR Business Network (http://bit.ly/5-STARBN), Vivek Sood talks about prophecies coming from an article written in the Harvard Business Review in 1999. About More Supply Chain Efficiency Although this article was written almost 15 years ago, the authors, John Hagel III and Marc Singer, were very forward thinking about companies. In fact, […]
Business Strategy-Complicated VS Complex Systems
About More Complicated Systems Complex organisations have always existed, but we have to admit that the level of complexity has tremendously increased over the past centuries, especially over the past decades. Complexity now touches everyone, and every organisation. This is something unavoidable, and that is the reason why companies have to learn how to manage […]
How to Manage Supply chain Complexity? | SCM
Supply Chain Complexity We have to admit that the world has become more and more complex over the past centuries, and it is even truer for the past decades! We are interested in business and it is not less obvious about it. Interaction and interconnectivity between people are a proof of this increasing complexity in […]
Apple’s Manufacturer Invests Millions in The US to Meet More Demand
Business Apple’s Manufacturer Taipei-based Foxconn Technology Group, whose biggest client is Apple, is to invest $US40 million in the United States to boost its high-end production chain. The move, welcomed by the US government, is part of the growing trend to seek a non-China outsourcing location. The world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer will commit $US30 […]
How SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 Can Lead To Tangible Business Benefits (Part 6 of 6)
How SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 Can Lead To Tangible Business Benefits (Part 6 of 6) How SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 Can Lead To Tangible Business Benefits (Part 6 of 6) AUTHOR VIVEK SOOD TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 Following two benefits outlined in the previous entry, in this last entry of the […]
Is The Apple About to Fall From The Tree? What We Can Learn From Apple’s Latest Share Price Wobble
About 5-Star Business network Apple’s shares have taken a worrying dip. One of the technology giant’s suppliers, Cirrus Logic, which is estimated to earn some 90% of its revenue from Apple, reported a fall in sales which led to the dip in Apple’s shares. The news shows the vulnerability that corporations can face and how […]
Why Cost Cutting Can Sometimes Become Too Costly?
Whenever a company announces a cost cutting drive, the markets respond with enthusiasm, driving up the share price. There are at least four assumptions underpinning this enthusiasm: The company had excessive fat, and needed to be trimmed down. The people conducting the diagnostic of what to cut are capable of identifying where the fat is, […]
Business Technology Without Purpose – a Missile Without a Guidance System
Business Technology Nobody sets out thinking, I have no purpose for bringing this technology into our company, but I will do this anyway (well a few rare twisted souls might do it – totally driven by a side deal that meets their self-interest). Yet, post-hoc analysis reveals so many IT projects fail due to a […]
The Universe of Workology | 5 star business|vivek sood
I cannot claim to know everything in the universe of workology. But after starting work at the age of 17 and worked almost continuously (barring a few short breaks for full time studies), for the last 34 years I do have a perspective. And, I do not hesitate to share it when the need arises. Recently, […]
