Sustainability and risk mitigation
The fast-changing and complex world in which we live makes crucial for companies the creation of sustainable businesses. They must be able to better understand their supply chains to optimize their costs, mitigate their risks, and innovate in an environment in which their business can potentially be disrupted. For food companies, a better understanding of […]
Three Crucial Elements for Collaborative Innovation
After writing over 50 books, some of them with such powerful ideas like in Raving Fans! Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service, Ken Blanchard is not only able to talk about management, but also about collaboration. I found the following talk truly interesting since collaboration is an increasingly necessary tool for growing businesses and for innovating […]
Corporate Social Responsibility: Much More Than Just a Tick off on the Checklist
Corporations with higher standards of transparency, purpose, and accountability are becoming more common, especially since the financial crisis, and so is the increasing number of companies who are finding ways to grow a business while considering social good. For those companies, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is much more than just a tick off on the […]
Open Enterprise: Trust and Co-creation of Value
In the book The Naked Corporation, which I mentioned in a previous post, Don Tapscott and David Ticoll refer to an emergent type of firm: The open enterprise; quite an interesting concept that they define as “actively transparent while carefully managing their critical competitive information and security”. They explain how in this model, transparency becomes […]
The Value of Transparency in Food Supply Chain
Interest in sustainability and business transparency continues to grow in the management of the enterprises environment, as, for instance, evidenced by recent surveys. Both issues are interlinked. Transparency is a powerful driver for sustainability as well as for efficiency and optimization of supply chains. According to a study elaborated by BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), […]
Driver for Innovation and Trust: The “Why” of a Company
Start with the Why by Simon Sinek is one of the books that I read very carefully as of late, as I referred in previous posts ‘Environment of Trust for Open Innovation’ and ‘What makes us succeed?’. In terms of creating spaces for innovation and real value propositions for customers, this text also has much […]
Transparency as an Unavoidable Obligation
Transparency has an enormous potential as a strategic tool for business. Apart from a very useful instrument to engage partners to create services and products, and build solid relationships based on confidence, being transparent is becoming imperative for companies. Some factors have been decisive in the way towards transparency in organizations, as Don Tapscott and […]
Digital nomads & companies challenges
Recently, a few articles about digital nomads caught my attention since some of the projects I lead are based on the same idea of ‘work anywhere’ and even ‘produce anywhere’. A funny one is “This Guy Is Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months” published by The Wire. Some other interesting ones were the book Digital […]
Creating Open Platforms of Solutions
In this post, I’ll share with you an interesting talk by Henry Chesbrough, the “father” of Open Innovation, at ESADE. After three books on the subject, he discusses the importance for companies to create platforms that connect all their services and products into systems and solutions able to involve external partners and provide the best […]
Closed models vs open models
The world is becoming more open and transparent. Business relations are also changing. People ask companies for more information and them to their suppliers. In a context of openness, old closed models no longer have a place. This is the case of the black box in food industry and some other fields such us Chemometrics. […]