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    Creating collaboration out of conflict for added value

    Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 20/05/2015

    » Effective collaboration is essential for creating value. But paradoxically, effective collaboration has always been a challenge for senior managers — how do you get people in the organisation to work together across internal boundaries or collaborate externally with key stakeholders?

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    Welcome to the new world of 'reshoring'

    Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 08/04/2015

    » Germany's Software AG says 2015 is shaping up as the tipping point for supply chains. It recently released its top 10 predictions for the manufacturing and supply chain industry this year, one of which relates to the emerging trend of "reshoring" — the return of manufacturing to developed markets as wages rise in emerging economies.

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    Should the C-suite have a 'supply chain' seat?

    Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 11/02/2015

    » The understanding of the supply chain and its strategic role in business is changing for many supply chain-intensive industries and companies. More business leaders are coming to understand that one aspect of creating value for the organisation and customers is supply chain management.

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    The value of simplicity

    Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 03/12/2014

    » For any large organisation to be effective, it must be simple, former General Electric chairman Jack Welch once observed. Delayering, streamlining and asking targeted questions are all part of the process. When it comes to supply chain streamlining and lean management, simplicity is easier said than done, but the pay-off is immense.

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    3D printing and supply chain disruption

    Business, Kanishka Ghosh, Published on 18/06/2014

    » If you’re not excited by 3D printing, you’re not thinking big enough, say some technology visionaries who predict that life on Earth will soon change radically due to it.

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    ‘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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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