The Right Way to Improve Your Supply Chain management – Vivek SOOD
The Right Way to Improve Your Supply Chain management The Apple watch left me underwhelmed as did the plethora of me-too tablets and phones which are barely struggling to keep up with the ever more nimble competition. Collaboration of SCM Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an essential element of operational efficiency. SCM is critical to […]
The Cost of Financial Transactions is Falling Dramatically | vivek sood
Despite a high level of participation, and over 1,000 attendees, the mood was rather sombre. I enjoyed the frank and realistic discussions and tried to attend as many sessions as my limited schedule permitted. I am a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) for the last 14 years, and attend their events occasionally. The Cost of Financial […]
How Good is Your Supply Chain Optimisation? | vivek sood
About Supply Chain optimisation System demos are tedious things at best. The developers are trying to showcase the best aspects of their baby in best possible light. They have spent months, sometimes years, thinking about and developing functionality. It is really a big ask to show off the usefulness of it all, in half an […]
Uses and misuses of benchmarks in supply chain management SCM
Speech of Supply Chain Management SCM There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli About More Supply Chain Management SCM Benchmarks are a peculiarly virulent form of statistics which can be used to make a positive change, or misused to make a dodgy sale. On one hand a benchmark, such as a world record […]
Why Every Start-Up Always Has a Supply Chain Problem?
Why Every Start-Up Always Has a Supply Chain Problem? There is a common assumption Always that every company’s supply chain should be similar, if not the same. Even learned professors at august institutions write highly prescriptive articles in highly regarded magazines such as Harvard Business Review saying these things. For example see this article by […]
The Last Miles of Amazon – vivek sood
Amazon Business A false-color satellite photograph of the Amazon River in Brazil. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Rivers become amazingly complex in their last few miles. If you have not yet done that try and navigate the Amazon delta from the sea up the river – it is an enlightening experience. As a former ships master, I […]
Your Business Network is your Business’ Net Worth
Excerpted from the introduction of THE 5-STAR BUSINESS NETWORK Business Network is now the engine of the society and it will need newer models of commerce to fast track the recovery. Hollowing out of skills out of entire societies without replacing them with another set of useful skills, very high level of youth unemployment (frequently […]
Airlines are Adjusting their 5-STAR Business Networks to the New Economic Reality
Airlines are Adjusting their 5-STAR Business Networks to the New Economic Reality About 5-star Business Network As the economic centre of the world moves more and more towards its more populous nations in Asia, a number of businesses are realising that they must adjust their business models, as well as their 5-STAR Business Networks to […]
5-STAR Business Network – A Company is Known by the Company it Keeps
5-star Business Network I am always amused to see the starry eyed stories of success of the companies in the business press. Many of the stories do not go deep into the real reasons for that success or to trace how transitory it can be, if those reasons disappear. It was not that long ago […]
Fire-Aim-Ready Innovation (FAR) – For Efficient Product Development
Fire-Aim-Ready Innovation (FAR) – For Efficient Product Development Fire-Aim-Ready Innovation (FAR) – For Efficient Product Development AUTHOR VIVEK SOOD TIME TO READ 6 minutes last update January 14, 2022 This article is an extract from The Five Star Business Network, written by Vivek Sood “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A […]
