What Supply Chain Managers Can Do About Safety Recalls?
If you are in Australia, it is more than likely that you already know this saga. If you are not in Australia, or do not follow the news cycle, take a look at the video below: This happens all too often. Once every few months, in some part of the world, a crisis of similar […]
CFOs’ Guide To Supply Chain
It is ironic that though the CFOs are at the absolute center of the universe within their organisations, when it comes to succession into CEOs role, boards are as almost as likely to overlook the CFOs candidature, as they are likely to give them the nod. At a first sight it looks like a puzzle. […]
Why Almost Everybody is Missing the Most Important Point in Their Solution to Amazon’s Threat to Australian Retailers
HOW BIG AMAZON’S THREAT TO AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS? Yesterday (on 2nd November 2017) I happened to briefly glance at the Australian Financial Review – the key finance newspaper in this country while I was waiting in the lobby for a meeting. Almost the entire paper was devoted to just one single topic – AMAZON’S THREAT TO […]
High Demand for Real Supply Chain Experts
Good solid supply chain thinkers are in high demand and low supply. I would know, I run this company called Global Supply Chain Group for the last 17 years. It appears that it was not too long ago (when we formed this company) – most business people were struggling to understand what is supply chain […]
How Organizational Silos Can Ruin Your Supply Chain
Organizational silos are based on the division of labor, on organizing the labor in such a way that each individual specialized in what he/she knows best, so that it can all be integrated in such a manner that a cohesive whole which is created in the result is much better in quality and much cheaper […]
Finally, An Innovation from Apple That is Worthy of Steve Jobs’ Name
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. I wrote a blog about the Apple Watch here wondering whether the company had lost its mojo. When I found out about Apple SIM, having written a […]
Why Every Start-up Always Has a Supply Chain Problem?
There is a common assumption 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 a Stanford professor, on which I had a running correspondence […]
What Makes the Business Networks Great?
What Makes Business Networks Great? Extract from the book “The 5-Star Business Network”, written by Vivek Sood In 2012, when Facebook’s IPO was being discussed in the media, a range of valuations was put forward by the experts between approximately $50 and more than $100 Billion. Most people in traditional businesses were stunned and asked how […]
Supply Chain is the New Electricity – You Cannot Run Business Without It
Recently I did a small but quite interesting thought experiment with one of my sons. We were discussing the invention of electricity and he asked me: “Dad, what would happen if there was no electricity?” Since I actually had such an experience, I recounted to him my life in a remote village in Himalayas when […]
What Does It Take To Go From Good to Great in Supply Chain?
It is only natural that many companies today want to go from good to great in Supply Chain. It takes a lot of effort to go from good to great in any field of endeavour. It takes even more discipline and technique, than the effort. But, there is another missing ingredient which does not occur […]