Will BitCoin Ever Amount to Anything More Than a Bit?
When I wrote my just released book The 5-STAR Business Network I included just one paragraph on Bitcoin, using it as an example of emerging business network of dubious quality. Here is what I wrote in the book: An interesting phenomenon that is just emerging is online currencies being traded between the informal networks. These […]
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. […]
Outcompete Anyone Using Your Business Network
Business Network System Thought leaders have a five star business network. They leverage of the value created by their business and supplier contacts to outcompete rivals and stay relevant. Your business can outcompete rivals too using its network. There are a number of ways your business can achieve this goal. Firstly, build a good business […]
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW (Part 3 of 3)
SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 IS REAL, AND HERE NOW (Part 3 of 3) About Supply Chain 3.0 In the last entry, I have talked about the first two pillars underpinning Supply Chain 3.0. So, what are the other three key cornerstones? Transaction Optimisation Profitability (TOP) measures the ability to simultaneously minimize the costs, and maximize the revenues […]
The Last Miles of Amazon – vivek sood
Amazon Business A false-color satellite photograph of the Amazon River in Brazil. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Rivers become amazingly complex in their last few miles. If you have not yet done that try and navigate the Amazon delta from the sea up the river – it is an enlightening experience. As a former ships master, I […]
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, […]
Globalisation – Big Solution That We Need For Today’s Big Problems
Learn Supply Chain Globalisation No matter which country you look at today – you see big problems. Emerging problems are currently grappling with massive monetary expansionism triggered by a need to keep currency stability in face of periodic bouts of Quantitative Easings. For example see the article “Rajan Warns of Policy Breakdown as Emerging Markets […]
supply chain business |Even Bigger Troubles With Big Data
supply Chain Business Troubles Troubles in big data are starting to emerge. I have written about these earlier, and warned the clients to first make sure their small data is working as intended before jumping into big data. If you cannot control your small data, your ERP system, your EIS or your cloud then forget […]
Airlines are Adjusting their 5-STAR Business Networks to the New Economic Reality
Airlines are Adjusting their 5-STAR Business Networks to the New Economic Reality About 5-star Business Network As the economic centre of the world moves more and more towards its more populous nations in Asia, a number of businesses are realising that they must adjust their business models, as well as their 5-STAR Business Networks to […]
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, […]
