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, […]
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 […]
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About More Hijacked Your Supply Chain I do not publish too many posts on LinkedIn any more because of ‘Gresham’s Law‘.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 […]
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS
About Supply Chain 3.0 In this series, I will address the second question raised at the start of the previous blog series – “What are the benefits of supply chain 3.0?” Before answering that question, let me go over the three type of responses I generally get when I explain to people that supply chain 3.0 is real. Most of […]
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS (Part 4 of 6)
Supply Chain Metaphors I hope by now you have grasped the business model in which Supply Chain 3.0 resides. Before we examine all the concrete benefits of Supply Chain 3.0, let us briefly differentiate it from its predecessors. Table 1 sets out to do that: Table 1 – Supply Chain Metaphors Supply […]
HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS (Part 5 of 6)
As you can see, supply chain 3.0 is for everyone, small and big companies. Now let me demonstrate the concrete benefits of having supply chain 3.0 and I promise these are not dull or irrelevant stories. Supply Chain 3.0 helps leverage your business Infrastructure Over the past several decades, both the global economy as well as the […]
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. […]
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 […]
