A Great Man Knows His Own Limitations, Supply Chain Innovation
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, Supply Chain Innovation.

Almost single-mindedly he twice created a company and Supply Chain Innovation that eventually became bigger than the economy of Spain (and many other countries).

Having grown up away from computers, I personally experienced his genius much later in my life than most people did;

only when I installed a very expensive and clunky hard drive based music system in one of my cars

I found out in a few months that his company and Supply Chain Innovation had released a much more compact, mobile, versatile, far superior iPod, which made my costly, and clunky install redundant.

But today, when I reflect – almost every technology and Supply Chain Innovation I use on daily basis has his finger prints on it – Microsoft Word, Windows, Android Phone – all have ideas inspired by him.

It was his misfortune that ‘the look and feel’ was something that could never be patented – Supply Chain Innovation

shows you how useless the patent laws really are when they protect what is not worth protecting and give no protection to what is worth protecting the most.

When I wrote my book, Supply Chain Innovation ‘The 5-STAR Business Network’ I used Apple as a shining example of the first star – Supply Chain Innovation.

The collaborative approach to Supply Chain Innovation that Steve Jobs pioneered, and that is epitomized in the quotation above was worth emulating.

Admittedly, his is not the only company and Supply Chain Innovation that does it – his company just used to do it better than anyone else.

Using a business network and Supply Chain Innovation of suppliers, suppliers’ suppliers and collaborators to co-create a product in far less time than anyone else could have Supply Chain Innovation created was a work of a genius.