With convergence, all of these companies are vying for their share of consumer wallets increasingly at that market that y surpasses Microsoft’s. How did it manage to get over the enched competitive advantage of companies such as Sony, Motorola, r Nokia?
Does structure matter in an Efficient global leadership model
In our work with corporations, we have frequently found that the supply chain structure frequently results in limiting the effectiveness of the organization. The traditional pyramid structure of the organization frequently stifles customer responsiveness and innovation. In the modern outsourced globalized world, a traditional pyramid structure with very strict hierarchies and internal walls between departments does more to be a hindrance than to be an aid for achieving success in business.Our work in global supply chain strategies and supply chain design has convinced us that a modern distributed organization needs to look at redesigning its structure to keep up with the modern world. The business world has changed tremendously in the last 20 years. A typical supply chain now runs across multiple continents seamlessly, through boundaries of several organizations, to finally serve a customer with a unique product. To do so, organizations have created de facto structures, which are far different from the pyramid structures that they have put in their organization charts. We would argue that organizations should formalize their de facto structures and use them to gain further competitive advantage. For this purpose we have created the following model:
What are the supply chain leadership model and its structure?
The supply chain leadership model shown in Fig:1 starts with customer at the apex of the organization. Clearly, it is the customer’s need which the organization is trying to serve and aligned to this customer…