Deep Collaboration | Supply Chain Management
A Great Man Knows His Own Limitations This picture prompted me to write the blog post. Like many other people, I am a great admirer of Steve Jobs – his integrity, his passion and his sense of design. Almost single-mindedly he twice created a company that eventually became bigger than the economy of Spain (and […]
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, […]
Why Supply Chain Models have to Change
About More Supply Chain Models In his book The 5-STAR Business Network (http://bit.ly/5-STARBN), Vivek Sood exposes the results of his researches on the organizational structure of companies. Companies used to follow the model of a traditional organization structure as in the following figure: Why Supply Chain Models have to change However, the global business world […]
Same Same But Different: Apple’s Emerging Supply Chain Rival Xiaomi Continues to Upstage Demand With Market Valuation More Than Nokia’s Sale Price of $10 Billion
Business Valuation Of Emerging Supply Chain China’s three-year-old technology company Xiaomi has recently announced the sale of its flagship Mi-3 smartphone will be on the Chinese top messaging app Wechat. This is another in a series of tactics deployed by Xiaomi to get to the heart of consumers and spur their demand. Already with 7.2 […]
Have You Seen These Tricks with KPIs ?
I came across the following picture on the blog of Thaku Huni and the thought struck me about a situation I encounter quite frequently: Business With KPIs If you asked any objective person about the KPIs of the group of six men above – most people will agree that at least on quality (meeting customer […]
No Matter Which Way You Look At It – The New Amazon Smartphone Is A Dud
Why Amazon Business Smartphone in Famous? As a strategy – it is doing what Apple did with iTunes more than a decade ago – build a walled garden for your customers to play within. The strategy rests on two assumptions – first, that the customers will not find a jailbreak, and the second that you […]
Has Intel Missed the Mobile Boat?
Has Intel missed the mobile boat? Has Intel missed the mobile boat? VIVEK SOOD AUTHOR TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 Intel has long been the model of Innovation. In particular, its famous tick-tock product development strategy has been hailed as a case study for learning how to balance the current […]
Are the Global Business Networks Shortening the Success Cycle?
Global Business Networks The first business book that I read was “In Search of Excellence” by Tom Peters and . It was a gushing account by two ex-McKinsey consultants truly in search of excellence among American businesses, and plethora of advise that to my then untutored mind (after all, I was still just an untutored […]
Which Business Models are Now Obsolete? | vivek sood
Most effective business leaders relish the challenge of answering questions such as the following: Some Steps Of Business Models 1. Why did Apple sue Samsung while it continues to buy critical parts for its winning products from Samsung? 2. Why did Google create Android OS for mobile applications, and is now talking about opening its […]
Invent an iphone |What If You Could Invent Your Own IPhone 7?| vivek sood
iPhone 6 has not been released yet and the crowd that likes to call itself THE INNOVATORS is waiting with bated breaths to again stand in queues for whole nights for the next re-incarnation of the great innovation. Here is the challenge for this crowd – and a thought experiment for the rest of us. […]
