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 […]
Apple’s Manufacturer Invests Millions in The US to Meet More Demand
Business Apple’s Manufacturer Taipei-based Foxconn Technology Group, whose biggest client is Apple, is to invest $US40 million in the United States to boost its high-end production chain. The move, welcomed by the US government, is part of the growing trend to seek a non-China outsourcing location. The world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer will commit $US30 […]
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 […]
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 […]
5-STAR Business Network Radio Interview of Vivek Sood on The Michael Dresser Show
Topic:The 5-STAR Business Networks Interviewer: Michael Dresser of The Michael Dresser Show Interviewee: Vivek Sood of Global Supply Chain Group (author of The 5-STAR Business Networks) HERE IS An audio of the interview About Business Network Get It Now Here is the entire transcript of the interview: Business Network Michael Dresser: Welcome back! I’m Michael, […]
This Week In America Interviews Vivek Sood on 5-STAR Business Network
Topic:The 5-STAR Business Networks Interviewer: Ric Bratton of This Week In America Interviewee: Vivek Sood of Global Supply Chain Group (author of The 5-STAR Business Networks) Here is a video of the interview: Get It Now Here is the entire transcript of the interview: Ric Bratton: Welcome back everybody! This Week In America, thank you for joining us! […]
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 […]
Have You Seen These Tricks with KPIs ?
I came across the following picture on the blog of Thaku Huni and the thought struck me about a situation I encounter quite frequently: Business With KPIs If you asked any objective person about the KPIs of the group of six men above – most people will agree that at least on quality (meeting customer […]
What Businesses Can Gain from the Transformation of Brazilian Soccer – Part 4/4
This is the concluding entry in this series of blogs – where I reminisced about my experiences from learning to play hockey in India, and watching Brazilian soccer transformation over the past several decades. In the first blog in this series I wrote about the Brazilian soccer teams’ transformation from an individualistic style of play to a […]
