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Think blue, Act green: The right strategy for businesses
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 18/01/2012
» The intersection of Blue Ocean Approach and Green Supply Chain may become the most obvious strategic direction to pursue for all businesses affected by last year's half-a-century flood crisis in Thailand.
The rise of Asia and reverse innovation
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 23/05/2012
» Will Asia reinvent itself as the world's innovation capital?
Tackling hunger with smart supply chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 01/08/2012
» The truth is always hard. Despite all the progress humanity has made, more than a billion people in the world are still going to bed hungry each night, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The World Health Organisation estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is underfed and one-third is starving. Further statistics reveal that someone dies of hunger every 3.6 seconds.
Packaging: A silent hero in the supply chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 26/09/2012
» In the run-up to the formation of the Asean Economic Community in 2015, the National Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Office has declared its goal to increase spending on research and development from less than 0.25% of gross domestic product, or US$1.1 billion, to 2% of GDP over the next decade.
Redefining supply chain excellence
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 30/01/2013
» When we talk of supply chain excellence, the traditional focus has always been on how to reduce operating costs for companies. This involved using supply chain levers to lower processing costs, increase asset utilisation and reduce inventory to realise higher margins.
The 'Shared Value' supply chain
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 27/03/2013
» One of the biggest challenges the world faces over the next half-century is how to create a better quality of life for a global population that is expected to top out at 9 billion by 2050. As populations expand, finite resources such as land, water and energy as well as biological resources get divided among increasing numbers of people, with the distinct possibility some will be left with no resources at all, posing a serious global humanitarian threat.
Will the value chain supplant the supply chain?
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 14/08/2013
» With the dynamic changes in the marketplace, from the age of "mass production" to the interim phase of "mass customisation" phase to the present "touchscreen" world, it seems the value chain will soon supplant supply chains. Changing consumer preferences have forced an unprecedented rethinking of the meaning and purpose of the supply chain.
Designing the value chain's innovation culture
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 11/09/2013
» Strengthening innovation in science and technology is essential if Thailand wants to move up the value chain from resource-driven growth, using low-cost labour and capital, to productivity-driven growth.
Promoting supply chain excellence in packaging
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 26/02/2014
» ‘Packaging is the only handshake that a product has with the consumer” is an industry saying that sums up the strong correlation between product preferences and packaging. This relationship is gradually becoming stronger in Asia with rapid economic growth, urbanisation and the surge in the number of middle-income people. This, of course, has been driving the modern trade retailing sector.
‘Lean’ redefined to create customer value
Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 09/04/2014
» When you think “lean”, what typically comes to mind are tools for eliminating waste in a manufacturing process. For example, kaizen (improvement) workshops, where frontline workers solve complex problems; kanban, the scheduling system for just-in-time production; and the andon cord, which, when pulled by any worker, causes a production line to stop.