How To Choose The Best Consultants For Your Project
Startling Statistics I came across a startling statistics which prompted a new line of thinking that I wanted to share – hence this article. Consider these statistics – over 70% of professionals would have worked as a consultant or will work as a consultant, at some point in their careers. In other words, if you […]
What is the Most Effective Strategy to Massively Slash Shipping Freight Costs?
Freight costs reduction is almost always the last frontier in the cost reduction landscape. At the board level, most companies do not pay much attention to their external freight costs. These costs never get the attention they deserve because they are scattered all over the place, and generally out of sight. What if I told […]
“The Start-ups’ Struggle” With Supply Chain – What is the Answer?
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011), Business Week, May 25 1998 In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But […]
Unique Supply Chain Challenges of Oil & Gas Industry
One of the common problems cited by the boards and senior management is that the consultants they hire do not understand their unique challenges. This applies even more to large cookie cutter approach based consulting houses with thousands of consultants where the guys who have the knowledge are too senior to focus on a couple of clients, and the guys who have the time have little knowledge, or experience.
What We Can Learn About Supply Chain Security From One of the Shrewdest Pivots In Business History
Two stalwarts in the mobile phone industry in March 2000 were equally impacted by the same event – a lightning fire in the chip manufacturing plant of their common supplier, Philips, in New Mexico.
How Supply Chain Strategy Can Help You Resolve The Innovators’ Conundrum
This is a million dollar question for most companies – start-ups or conglomerates. A lot of time and money is wasted, either because the companies do not bother to ask this question in time, or try to answer it in the wrong way. Here is a story:
The Trouble With Supply Chain Security
Most security professionals do not even know ABC of supply chains, and most supply chain professionals bother about only ABC of security.
Never Hire Management Consultants In These Situations
I need to tell a true story which is about 16 years old. Jon had just left the secure world of a senior role in a multi-billion dollar global corporation to accept the role of the CEO in a mid-size family-owned company. He had always been a go-getter, who had progressed fast in his previous […]
How To Get The Most Out of Your Management Consultants While Spending The Least On Them?
The Quality of Your Management Consultants Will Decide The Heights You Eventually Climb To
How To Get BIG Breakthrough Results in 2019?
Achieving breakthroughs is always difficult. Here is an easy way to think about how to achieve breakthrough results.