From Free Markets to Free Networks And Beyond
From free markets to free networks and beyond The story started in the 19th century with the beginning of free markets. The world of free markets is the world where business exchanges started to expand to global organizations and relationships. Many exchanges were now possible thanks to the free markets. The allocation of resources is […]
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 […]
When the Ship is Sinking: Focus on Plugging the Hole in the Hull
About Ship is Sinking My sabbatical from writing blogs over the past few weeks has been interrupted. Besides my day job of consulting, I was focusing on finishing my second book “Know When to Outsource, and How to Do It Well: Outsmart, Outprofit, Outsource”. However, after reading a Harvard Business Review blog, I feel compelled […]
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, […]
The Newest Supply Chain Model
In the traditional business world or Supply Chain Model, relations between organisations were different from what they are today. Collaboration between organisations – if there was collaboration – used to follow a linear model. In fact, when several organisations had to collaborate, they used to do it through a very linear model, with traditional supplier-buyer […]
The Age of Global Business Network
About Global Business Network Obviously, business networks have tremendously changed through the ages. The world has become global and business networks have kept expanding over the years and centuries. In fact, business networks used to be very small, even non-existent a few centuries ago. In former societies, businesses were not as developed as they are […]
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 […]
Who Hijacked Your Supply Chain?
About More Hijacked Your Supply Chain I do not publish too many posts on LinkedIn any more because of ‘Gresham’s Law‘. However, once in a while I still publish content that would be relevant to that platform. I was delivering the keynote speech at the Quintiq World Tour recently at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore – where […]
Why Collaboration in Supply Chain is the NEW Advantage?
About Collaboration in Supply Chain For decades, if not centuries, the economists have been extolling the virtues of competition. No doubt, competition unleashes forces lying dormant within human psyche – forces of of one-upmanship, jealousy, keep up with the jones, and similar nature. Of course, the economists rarely look into the psyche behind the actions […]
How Google is Looking to Change the Corporate World in 2015, Again
How Google is Looking to Change the Corporate World in 2015, Again How Google is Looking to Change the Corporate World in 2015, Again AUTHOR VIVEK SOOD TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 The Corporate World in 2015 Changing Business Models – Push television/video to YouTube: Videos ad revenues from YouTube […]
