How To Harvest Your Business Ecosystem and Network?

Business Network

If you are as deeply passionate about the world of business and supply chain networks as I am, and enjoy exploring similar questions and coming up with answers that will help immensely in using this wisdom to build your business, then join me.

Do Not Topple The Global Economy Mr Trump

Global Economy

I have nothing against you President Trump. I have nothing for you either. But, when I heard of the directive to manufacture  iPhones in USA, I had to write this post. This is one of the weakest ideas I have heard from Supply Chain point of view, and I am not indulging in a political […]

The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results

Rare Art Supply Chain

The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results I was in a meeting with one of my clients who was one of the top 3 executives in a large company, The Rare Art Supply Chain of Getting Rapid Results and he was telling me his experience from a recent corporate retreat, where 24 of […]

Deep Collaboration | Supply Chain Management

Own Limitations

A Great Man Knows His Own Limitations This picture prompted me to write the blog post. Like many other people, I am a great admirer of Steve Jobs – his integrity, his passion and his sense of design. Almost single-mindedly he twice created a company that eventually became bigger than the economy of Spain (and […]

How to Maximise Both Supply Chain Efficiency And Effectiveness At The Same Time

Supply Chain Efficiency

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, […]

How to Manage Supply chain Complexity? | SCM

Manage Complexity - Expanding Your Business

Supply Chain Complexity We have to admit that the world has become more and more complex over the past centuries, and it is even truer for the past decades! We are interested in business and it is not less obvious about it. Interaction and interconnectivity between people are a proof of this increasing complexity in […]

The Newest Supply Chain Model

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 […]

Business Strategy-Complicated VS Complex Systems​

Complicated 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 […]