Arecent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking. With so many...

In my last post on modernizing versus digitally transforming, I mentioned a phenomenon some of us are calling the “multi-multi” problem....

Irecently had the privilege of attending a program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management about Organizational Design for Digital Transformation. My...

As a young division director in a large company, the notion that “big businesses do business with big businesses” was drilled into my head. It was...

While on a due-diligence trip through North China to evaluate a company my organization was thinking of acquiring, I was impressed by their...

The title paraphrases a common nighttime message from my youth. Just before signing off, television stations would ask their viewers: It’s 11pm…Do...

You can try and blame the need for speed on Amazon, with two-day delivery becoming one day and even same day in some instances. But all they’re...

At the start of my career, most brands and OEMs used a traditional two-tier distribution process through wholesalers and retailers to sell their...

For some time, I’ve been reading, watching and following the white papers, case studies, and countless webinars put on by keen minds about digital...

In our first installment on the value of customer loyalty, we discussed the numbers surrounding trust and customer retention. Indeed, in these...

While most business cycles ebb and flow, two or three times in a generation we encounter an earth-shattering change that fundamentally reshapes the...

There have been countless times throughout my career where I was either a recommender or approver of significant IT projects. And, I must say, I...