Supply Chain Sustainability
"Supply Chain Sustainability-5starbusinessnetwork" provides a comprehensive guide to developing and implementing sustainable supply chains. It provides practical advice on how to identify and reduce environmental impacts while creating competitive advantages and cost savings.
current supply chain priorities - in 2023 and beyond
Unchain your corporation: Unleash Supply Chain Potential
Make Your Business More
EFFECTIVE
EFFICIENT
PROFITABLE
FLEXIBLE
RESILIENT
ADAPTABLE
Fight Inflation
Business strategy and supply chain will have to take into account that as the storm clouds of inflation gather at the horizon, you will have to change the strategic tack to go through the rough patches unscathed.
Stay Relevant
keep current with the realistic yet cutting edge practice in both the supply chain, and the board room. The business strategy and supply chain from the last two decades will not work any more.
survive and thrive
Keep your head when everyone else in the market starts losing theirs. The supply chain turmoil persists and requires new business strategy and supply chain thinking. For general directions, read the blogs below.
Our Books on Supply Chain Sustainability
THE 5-STAR BUSINESS NETWORK
Seminal Business Book
OUTSOURCING 3.0
The Highest Form of Outsourcing
UNCHAIN YOUR CORPORATION
What is chaining today's corporations?
GREEN SUPPLY CHAINS - AN ACTION MANIFESTO
Seminal Business Book
Must Read Article - on Supply Chain Sustainability
How To Harvest Your Business Transformation Ecosystem and Network?
Why bother about Business Transformation Ecosystems and Networks?
• Why did Apple sue Samsung while it continues to buy critical parts for its winning products from Samsung?
• Why did Google create Android OS for mobile applications, and is now talking about opening its own retail stores?
• Why did Amazon create Kindle when the market is already saturated by other tablets and similar products?
• How did Nokia mobile phone lose its shine?
• Why did Apple build its own retail presence?
• How will shale gas discoveries in North America change the Business Transformation world and perhaps the geo-political balance in the next 10 years?
If you are as deeply passionate about the world of Business Transformation 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 Transformation, then join me.
This article and the rest of the articles in this series are a journey of exploration through the world of Business networks, Business Transformation that run the commercial world today.
The Story of General Motors (GM) is instructive
When General Motors filed for Chapter XI protection in 2008, it also marked the closing of a chapter in modern commerce. General Motors was seen as the paragon of modern American management theory as popularized by Peter Drucker in the middle of the twentieth century.
It was at this venerable company that Peter Drucker formed his early thoughts about management as a profession, separation of the ownership from management of enterprise, the key functions of management, division of labour, theory of leadership of enterprise, indeed the very concept of the corporation.