Strategy
The Feature for the January Issue of the Harvard Business Review is The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter where he reaffirms and updates his classic 1979 paper that revolutionized the field of strategy.The five Porter forces that shape Industry Competition are: Threat of New Entrants [...]
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Last November, the Supply Chain Management Review ran an article on The Sustainable Supply Chain that noted that being sustainable is now a source of competitive advantage and a matter of corporate survival rather than a costly inconvenience. The article, based on a study by A.T. Kearney and the ISM that surveyed a diverse [...]
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Even though it’s a topic the doctor mentions regularly (see AMR’s 7 Supply Chain Best Practices, and Procurement Lead Time Optimization, and The Benefits and Risks of Global Product Development, for example), it’s something that he rarely dedicates a post to. However, since, Supply and Demand Chain Executive recently published an article by Heather [...]
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Pinky and the Brain They’re Pinky and the Brain Yes, Pinky and the Brain One is a genius, the other is insane They’re advertising guys Their mind is on the prize They’re dinky They’re Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, BrainBefore each night is done Their plan will be unfurled [...]
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In this post, we continue our coverage of Succeeding in a Dynamic World: Supply Management in the Decade Ahead, a detailed report based on research jointly undertaken by the ISM, A.T. Kearney and CAPS Research in an effort to update the 1998 CAPS Study on The Future of Purchasing and Supply: A Five and [...]
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In Part I of our review of Succeeding in a Dynamic World: Supply Management in the Decade Ahead, we overviewed the various external forces that will impact a company’s supply chain. In Parts II and III we took deep dives into the eight major forces that were identified specifically by supply managers who took [...]
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The EE Times ran a great article by Romit Dey and Manoj K. Singh last month on Demand Shaping and how it aligns customer trends with supply. But I have to ask, is it really “demand shaping” or is it more “demand sensing”. Is not “demand shaping” what marketing and advertising does? [...]
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Recently, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR), and Michigan State University (MSU) released the Fifth Annual Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress. The report measured the performance of firms along eight dimensions of supply chain competence: Alignment with Business Strategy Strategic Customer Integration Strategic [...]
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Strategy+Business recently published an article by the same name that contained a 10-point checklist that leaders of large-scale transformation can use to put their wisdom into practice. Considering that managerial delusions are often rampant, that the Home Bias effect is often in full force, and that What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, any [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T. Mendonca titled Strategy’s Strategist: An Interview with Richard Rumelt that had a number of great insights from the man himself. Richard Rumfelt, a professor of strategy at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where he holds the Harry and Elsa [...]
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