The Opinionizer

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00 +0100

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Shelf Denial

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

When is a store a warehouse?

East is East

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

Rudyard Kipling once wrote, “Oh supply is supply and demand is demand and never the ‘twain shall meet.”

Time to On−shore?

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

Do you have a long supply chain? Is the price of oil making you crazy? Maybe it’s time to on−shore your manufacturing.

SaaS

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

What’s good about SaaS? What’s not?

Previous Opinionizers 2008

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

Previous Opinionizers 2007

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

Do you know where your [
]ERP vendor is?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00 +0100

It’s 11:00 PM. Do you know where your ERP vendor is?

Out of Date

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00 +0100

Remember Betamax? How about Token Ring? Laser Discs? OS/2? WAP? So why would you run your enterprise applications on a proprietary foundation?

Who’s more fickle – customer or suppliers?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00 +0100

In the web world, you often hear that your competitors are only a mouse−click away. In other words, your customers can easily find comparable products or services. Their switching costs are low. They’re fickle.

Bargain Basement

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00 +0100

Quick: what’s the biggest cost in the apparel industry?

Grounds for Expansion

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00 +0100

Why would a coffee distributor care about stocking spare parts?

Items, Items, Everywhere

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00 +0100

Quick: What do distributors hate most? [
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Dressed for Success