Share This on Linked In Last December, the McKinsey Quarterly published an article on Strategy in a ’structural break’ that is even more appropriate now than it was then as the structural break, at least according to some, shows no sign of ending this year. The article, which started off noting [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in i2’s Supply Chain Leader on how resilient companies can manage demand when the past is not a reliable indicator of the future had a great table that compared and contrasted demand tactics and strategies in stable vs. volatile economies that did a great [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent report by Loudhouse, sponsored by BravoSolution and covered in Industry Week in their article on Purchasing Officers: Confident Now, But is Trouble Ahead?, found that 69% of the CPOs surveyed had not examined the impact of the last six months on their supply management strategy, which leaves [...]
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Share This on Linked In Recently, Jeffrey Word, the Director of the Center for Business Network Transformation and Vice President of Product Strategy at SAP, edited and published Business Network Transformation: Strategies to Reconfigure Your Business Relationship for Competitive Advantaged through Jossey Bass, with all royalties from the book being donated to the World [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article on the Supply Chain Brain site by Enporion did a great job of outlining the necessary requirements for organizational success in your supply chain. Even though a center-led model is usually optimal, as it lets you take advantage of the best aspects of the centralized [...]
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A recent article in The McKinsey Quarterly elucidated their three top strategic planning tips for 2009. In brief, they were: Be realistic about scenario planning Recognize that several different futures are equally plausible, develop plans accordingly, and try to focus on the [...]
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Vendors and Consultants are but a small portion of the industry, and the economy … as Buyers, you work for organizations that compose the majority. The only way we’re truly going to get back to business-as-usual is if you use the vision provided by the vendors to identify what clarity you need, bring in [...]
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Just like vendors need to stand up and provide a vision, consultants need to sit down (with executives) and provide the execution clarity that will get buyers on the fast-track to procurement, organizational, industrial, and economic success. More specifically, at this time, they need to: Focus on a Niche [...]
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As I said in Part I, the way out of this prolonged recession is business-as-usual. For technology solution providers, that means the following: Continued New Product Development Continued Spending on Marketing and Thought Leadership Continued Workforce Development [...]
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I’d hoped I wouldn’t have to state the obvious, but everywhere I look it’s doom and gloom together with ridiculous economic explanations pulled out of a depth so dark that even a proctologist with a flashlight would have trouble finding the source, when the answer is extremely simple. In fact, I can sum it [...]
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