I was rather happy to read the Aberdeen report’s summary which highlights that global product design and development leads to reduction in product development time and time to market while allowing the protection of intellectual property through Digital Rights Management. This blog and my research has been investigating these issues for some time and IContinue reading “Mature Global design Strategies improve profits”
Category Archives: Team Work
LOL -Limitation of Liability-with Jim Bergman
The talk by Jim Bergman on Tuesday at CAPM turned out to be great. Jim gave folks a heads up on IACCM and the real need for the buy-sell and legal side of companies to speak to each other instead of remaining in their silos.Organizations tend to, for example, not really understand their customer warrantyContinue reading “LOL -Limitation of Liability-with Jim Bergman”
Crib Recall – New Product Development meets Supplier Involvement
Walk into any furniture store in the US and almost all products are made in China. You order anything and the boxes arrive with instructions and you do as best as you can. I , for example, have a desk with a hutch that I could not install very well and just did not wantContinue reading “Crib Recall – New Product Development meets Supplier Involvement”
So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?
Well for one, the new Sterling Service Contracts , gets linked to many of the categories that I blog about! And that is a lot of categories… Some of the things that Sterling Service Contracts will do includes, and I quote from Sterling’s press release: START QUOTE: Storefront capabilities that provide customers and partners withContinue reading “So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?”
John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center
Just as things were slowing down for the summer I read the exciting news that John Seely Brown is joining John Hagel as Co-Chairman at the Deloitte and Touche Technology and Strategy Center. Readers of this blog might remember John Hagel ‘s great book Net Gain which talked about communities in 1997, a full decadeContinue reading “John Seely Brown to join John Hagel at Deloitte Technology and Strategy Center”
Supplier Relationship Management
I guess it was my particular managerial experience with high value packaging lines involving major installation, servicing and material supply that made it natural for me to look at SRM and CRM as pretty obvious things to do even in the "round" world ( as opposed to the flat world ). Frankly, as any systemContinue reading “Supplier Relationship Management”
SAP Sapphire 07 Atlanta- creating a platform and applications
These days , my organizational studies and interactions encourage me to think as to what would be the situation if every organization had every process completely captured on an ERP system that was web based. These include internal processes like production planning, procurement, manufacturing, accounting and finance, sales and distribution. Also could include external stakeholdersContinue reading “SAP Sapphire 07 Atlanta- creating a platform and applications”
Global networks of innovation – a reality in 2020 ?
I have been thinking of the biggest change that 2006 has brought as we review 2006 on the last day of the year. Actually I had been studying this trend since 2005 when I happened to see the CBS 60 minutes report on Echo Boomers. Having a teenage son helped as was the opportunity toContinue reading “Global networks of innovation – a reality in 2020 ?”