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 […]
Globalisation Is Inevitable – Prepare For It
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
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 […]
New Business Models for the New World
Know More New Business Models I write my blog mostly because I enjoy writing on the topics I cover. But I have noticed an interesting side-effect which is starting to bring home to me the power of electronic media and blogs. I never thought that the effect will be so direct, immediate and measurable, but […]
Why Cost Cutting Can Sometimes Become Too Costly?
Whenever a company announces a cost cutting drive, the markets respond with enthusiasm, driving up the share price. There are at least four assumptions underpinning this enthusiasm: The company had excessive fat, and needed to be trimmed down. The people conducting the diagnostic of what to cut are capable of identifying where the fat is, […]
Has Intel Missed the Mobile Boat?
Has Intel missed the mobile boat? Has Intel missed the mobile boat? VIVEK SOOD AUTHOR TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 Intel has long been the model of Innovation. In particular, its famous tick-tock product development strategy has been hailed as a case study for learning how to balance the current […]
Will BitCoin Ever Amount to Anything More Than a Bit?
When I wrote my just released book The 5-STAR Business Network I included just one paragraph on Bitcoin, using it as an example of emerging business network of dubious quality. Here is what I wrote in the book: An interesting phenomenon that is just emerging is online currencies being traded between the informal networks. These […]
Is The Apple About to Fall From The Tree? What We Can Learn From Apple’s Latest Share Price Wobble
About 5-Star Business network Apple’s shares have taken a worrying dip. One of the technology giant’s suppliers, Cirrus Logic, which is estimated to earn some 90% of its revenue from Apple, reported a fall in sales which led to the dip in Apple’s shares. The news shows the vulnerability that corporations can face and how […]
The 5 Star Business Network hits the Shelves – vivek sood
learn More Business Network Vivek Sood is passionate about business. With a career that has spanned multiple industries and continents, he has moved from success to success over the years. Now, the award-winning author shares his experience with the world in his eagerly anticipated new publication, The 5 Star Business Network. Available at amazon.com and […]
Apple’s Business strategy To Dump Samsung or not-vivek sood
Has Apple Learnt the Lesson That Dell Never Learnt? | Business Strategy Apple has grappled with this conundrum for a while now – when, if at all, to dump Samsung? There comes a point in every business network when the erstwhile suppliers become more powerful than the ‘customer’. Dell continued to rely on its suppliers […]
