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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 […]

How Google is Looking to Change the Corporate World in 2015, Again

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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 […]

Have You Seen These Tricks with KPIs ?

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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 […]

Business Model Transformation: Lessons From Soccer And Hockey – Part 2

Soccer And Hockey

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 […]

What Businesses Can Gain from the Transformation of Brazilian Soccer – Part 4/4

Transformation, of Brazilian Soccer, Brazilian

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 […]

No Matter Which Way You Look At It – The New Amazon Smartphone Is A Dud

Amazon Smartphone

Why Amazon Business Smartphone in Famous? As a strategy – it is doing what Apple did with iTunes more than a decade ago – build a walled garden for your customers to play within. The strategy rests on two assumptions – first, that the customers will not find a jailbreak, and the second that you […]

Globalisation Is Inevitable – Prepare For It

Globalisation Is Inevitable

About Globalisation In Supply Chain When we renamed our company Global Supply Chain Group in 2006, the key thought running in my mind was that despite clear and evident trend of globalisation – most companies still ran their supply chain on a regional basis. Many of our clients see value in global integration of their […]

HOW SUPPLY CHAIN 3.0 CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE BUSINESS BENEFITS (Part 4 of 6)

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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)

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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 […]