Information for success
Operations management deals with the challenge of using people, processes and technology to execute a business strategy. Weather the market strategy is a low cost or a diversification one, operations management is the set of practices and tools that ensure the actual delivery on the promise made to a customer. Continue reading “Superior Operations Management, a Competitive Advantage”
Some startups have a solid plan behind, some just an ambitious idea. Which ones do you think are most successful? No, it’s not the ones having a careful planning behind. Those that start from an ambitious idea are most successful, and there is a reason for that. Solving a problem it’s not so much a plan and execute process, but more of a trial and error method. Continue reading “What’s Wrong With Some Startups”
You might go with the obvious answer. It’s good health plans and great retirement programs with matching contributions. And you would be right. It’s what solves the basic problem. On the list there is also room for flexible working hours, gym access and paternity leave. Continue reading “What Makes a Great Place to Work?”
In theory vertical integration is all about capturing the margin. It can be forward integration when a manufactures distributes and sells its own products, like Apple does through its own stores, and it can be backward integration as Apple also did by manufacturing their own components and operating systems. Which is a particular case of both forward and backward integration, usually integration is one way or another. Continue reading “Vertical integration”
By now we already know that multitasking was just a fad, and that the key is to focus and make this a behavior. But focus also wins over unrelated diversification, something that some companies have tried and entrepreneurs try often as experiments under the “fail often, fail quick to learn fast” modus operandi. Continue reading “Focus wins”
