08/20/2008 at 12:57 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
China is currently at the centre of attention, not only due to the Olympics but also on account of the country’s incredible economic growth. Two books recently appeared about the role of China in realising world domination in the business community...
05/15/2008 at 12:51 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Academic research results in the field of supply chain management were often obtained from ideal circumstances with generic conditions. Supply chain professionals, on the other hand, developed cost-effective strategies on the basis of local and...
03/15/2008 at 12:42 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
‘From grain to drink’ and ‘from sand to customer’ are familiar slogans in the total overview of a supply chain that certainly appeals to the imagination. Architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart are now introducing the...
11/15/2007 at 12:29 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The global competition between countries and companies is increasing proportionally to the rapid globalisation. More than ever before, governments of different countries are competing with one another. The title ‘How Countries Compete’ by Richard...
11/15/2007 at 12:24 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The book ‘The Dragons at Your Door’ by Ming Zeng and Peter J. Williamson gives a surprising, fascinating insight into the ways in which Chinese companies, innovatively and successfully, compete in the world market. The two authors argue that the...
05/15/2007 at 12:00 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
Peter Drucker is, even after his death in 2005, perhaps the most important management guru of all times. Some of his famous sayings include: ‘Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things’, ‘Plans are only good...
03/15/2007 at 11:53 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
The very readable book ‘The Long Tail’ by Chris Anderson is a discussion of a relatively new phenomenon. Namely that the sales of products in small numbers in particular yield huge proceeds due to the rise of the Internet. At least one track is...
10/16/2006 at 1:12 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
To put it bluntly, ‘Living Supply Chains: How to mobilize the enterprise around delivering what your customers want’ by John Gattorna is a revolutionary book, in which Gattorna finally succeeds in not only producing a ground-breaking supply chain...
03/15/2006 at 11:20 am | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments
It is not completely new, this ‘Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Creating Value-Adding Networks’: the first edition appeared as early as 1992. But the author, Martin Christopher, marketing and logistics professor at Cranfield School of...