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“Supply chain analytics aims to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness by enabling data-driven decisions at strategic, operational, and tactical levels.” – Capgemini Supply chains have etched a prominent presence among the ideas, constructs, tools, and systems that power modern businesses. These ‘chains’ enable businesses to establish productive (and sustained) linkages between suppliers of raw materials,…

“It’s about catching customers in the act, and providing highly relevant and highly contextual information.” – Paul Mauritz Good value stems from a variety of factors; these include creative design, competitive price points, emphatic value propositions, intelligent calibration, and value-added services. Creative (and expressive) design is important because it boosts the optics of product lines,…

“For every sale you miss because you’re too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you’re not enthusiastic enough.” – Zig Zaglar Information – in its myriad forms, expressions, stances, and manifestations – plays a crucial, enabling, multi-dimensional role in modern civilization. It seeds and empowers impulses of human thought that seek to ideate, build,…

“Design is everywhere. From the dress you’re wearing to the smartphone you’re holding, its design.”— Samadara Ginige The realm of the virtual, as opposed to the real world, finds its primary premise in binary code. The virtual also interacts with the real through the electronic (constructs and artifacts) such as e-books, email, web browsers, digital…

“Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.” – John C. Maxwell Acts of melding intent, information, ambition, motivation, and professional expertise can combine…

“One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.” – Grace Hopper Expensive, visual artwork – such as oil paintings executed on canvas – embody stellar instances of the human imagination combining with artistic creativity to present beautiful, powerful, and transcendent pictures and images. Artists and painters typically deploy a variety of tools, skills, methods,…

“Flowcharts allow anyone—from sales representatives to developers to creatives—to better visualize any processes, projects, and thoughts and present them in a meaningful way.”- LucidChart Analysis of clay tablets that originated in fabled antiquity indicate their widespread use as recording media. These artifacts, expressions of human creativity, variously captured edicts issued by rulers, helped codify laws…

“From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realizations.” – Baba Kalyani The accretion of value continues to present a central theme in most lines of modern economic…

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller Migrating birds flying long distances present a wonderful sight for observers rooted in terra firma. The powers of inquiry, observation, and analysis have helped decode some of the mechanics that animate the typical arrow-head formations…

“Running a project without a work breakdown structure is like going to a strange land without a road map.” – J Phillips The word ‘breakdown‘ signals a heavily negative connotation, one that conjures up images of impending chaos, rank disorder, a precursor to possible cataclysm, or perhaps the systematic dismantling of an existing system. The…