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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Enterprise resilience–the ability to have consistent balance sheet returns despite market volatility– decreased starting in 2014. In general the ERP technology providers underperformed, and the investment was an opportunity cost to the adoption of new forms of analytics and building effective business networks.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult.

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Xiaomi: Rapid growth of a mobile internet company in China

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

  However, it outsourced the manufacturing operations of the phone to Foxconn.      By focusing on the notion of DFM (design for manufacturing) internally, Xiaomi focused on producing its originally designed smartphone that is of high quality and low cost.

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