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About More Hijacked Your Supply Chain I do not publish too many posts on LinkedIn any more because of ‘Gresham’s Law‘.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 […]
What Business Executives Can Learn From The Story of Brazil’s Soccer Transformation
About Brazilian Soccer Dilemma In the early 90s, more than two decades since its last World Cup championship title, Brazil hungered for the trophy more than any other country on earth. Yet the scars from its 1950 campaign were still not totally erased. . Dubbed as the saddest day in Brazilian soccer history, July 16 […]
Business Model Transformation: Lessons From Soccer And Hockey – Part 2
About Business Model Transformation In the previous blog in this series I wrote about the Brazilian soccer teams transformation from an individualistic style of play to a network style game. In early 90s, more than two decades since the last World Cup championship title and Brazil faced an interesting juxtaposition – continue with what led to past […]
A Revamped Business Model: The Introduction of Customer Centric
New challenges need new responses. The common organizational model looks like the generic drainpipe structure, meeting the mammalian need for an ordered hierarchy and flow of power within a business. Most companies have evolved in the last 2 decades and their functioning has become almost entirely customer centric. Their customers’ priorities drive most of the […]
My Experience With Freight Cost Reduction Using Supply Chain Software
Supply Chain Software One of the reasons I invest so much time and resources of our company in keeping current with the information technology is that good supply chain depends almost entirely on good information. Freight Cost Reduction And, your information is only as good as the technology deployed to collect, collate, store, parse and […]
Optimising What? Why Business Transformations Fail?
Business Transformations of Supply Chain Optimisation has always been a hot topic for strategists and business transformations executives. Now, as the mantle for leading corporations is moving from strategists to the integrationists and supply chain leaders – optimisation is hotter than ever before. When discussing business transformations, in my workshops, presentations and speeches, in particular I […]
Changing Role of Supply Chain optimization in Digital Economy
In the rapidly changing world – role of supply chain is constantly evolving. There are now at least three generations of supply chains and the confusion about the roles and expectations is leading to massive losses inside the corporations. Here are some insights and excerpts from my speech on this topic. You can see the video on Latest […]
Industrial Age Tools vs Information Age Weapons
This is the part 2 of my earlier post What I Learnt Fighting Pirates (Not in the Caribbean)! (that post was getting too long, so I had to break it into two parts). Industrials Supply Chain I asked bosun to send a repelling party to cut the ladder and the scrambling rope, while I sent two […]
What Data You Got is Not As Important as What you Do With It
First let me start with a story. I have some personal experience in 1990 with this ancient mariners’ rhyme: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere: Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, […]
Departmental Silos: The Achilles Heel of Your Company
Departmental Silos: The Achilles Heel of Your Company Departmental Silos: The Achilles Heel of Your Company AUTHOR VIVEK SOOD TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 Businesses are gradually being chained by a number of forces so ubiquitous and accepted by all of us, that we fail to notice their impact on […]
