As a nice follow up to my When Going Global - Don’t Forget the Context post, I’d like to draw your attention to the finer points of an article that interviews Chris Zook, author of Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth, over on Knowledge@Wharton called Achieving Full Potential: How […]
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Even though it has, like many articles these days, a China-centric focus, the article Context and Complexity by Edward Tse over on Strategy + Business had some great advice for any multinational thinking that they can enter a new market and immediately see dramatic, exponential, expansion in their reach and consumer base.The article points out […]
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Last month, I advertised the Global Data Mining Webinar in my post Global Trade Metrics Benchmarking, which I followed a few weeks later with Catching up with GDM: Don’t Underestimate Trade Compliance. In the latter post, I noted that Global Data Mining not only found that error rates in global trade processes approach 10% to […]
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Continuing with the impromptu delusions theme, that started with Managerial Delusions two weeks ago and continued with What Got You Here Won’t Get You There last week, this week we discuss another recent article from Knowledge @ Wharton, The Impact of Good Governance on International Investing: The ‘Home Bias’ Effect and Other Issues. […]
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Last October, while discussing Global Trade Data Management, I introduced you to Global Data Mining, a company that specializes in helping high-volume, high-value global trade businesses build effective trade databases for extensive trade reporting and comprehensive auditing to significantly improve their processes, reduce their error rates, and save time and money in their global trade […]
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Have you ever wondered …? How effective are your global trade operations? Is there a way to effectively measure its performance? How much does it contribute to the company’s bottom line? What are your […]
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The European Leaders in Procurement network recently posted a white-paper by Booz Allen Hamilton titled Buy Globally, Think Globally, Implications of Global Economics for Sourcing Professionals that is a fascinating read. (I’m surprised our resident economist hasn’t picked up on it yet. Guess he’s just too busy trying to do my job.) […]
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Accenture recently released a short paper on how to build a successful global operations model in which they described six key capabilities that are required for a winning global operations strategy that is worth a quick review.
The article notes that bringing together the worlds of product, market growth, and operations strategy is a prerequisite to […]
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Recently, I wrote about Aberdeen’s recent research brief on Global Trade Management in 2007 in my post Global Trade Management 2007 that highlighted this year’s focus in Global Trade Management (GTM): improving agility, trade compliance, and risk management. This brief was followed by their Global Trade Management Strategies: Surviving Growing Complexities in 2007 report.
This […]
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In the not too distant past, Gartner’s C. Dwight Klappich put out an article on Developing an End-to-End Global Trade Management Functional Map which, although not long enough, in-depth enough, or complete enough for the topic they were tackling, did contain a number of good check lists that you should review while putting your global […]
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