Monarch Supply Chain Management, LLC

01/01/2013

Happy New Year Everyone!

11/22/2012

How do you evaluate your collaboration tools?

In my last couple of discussions I touched on some of the collaboration tools selection activities along with some of the capabilities available within the Google+ ecosystem. As I mentioned in my discussion regarding the Google+ tools they provide a great opportunity to experiment without a great d...

11/18/2012

Have you investigated Google+ for business collaboration support?

In my previous discussion I started to cover collaboration tools and how you should evaluate and investigate tools that are free along with the tools that your extended supply chain partners utilize in their practices. You should really undertake this evaluation as you would any other selection and...

11/16/2012

How do you go about selecting collaboration tools for your extended supply chain?

My discussions have focused on the strategic value and development of the extended supply chain collaborative network and the key efforts to deliver on that strategy. I’ve stayed away from the tools conversation because I feel that tools selection should be analyzed and performed based on the speci...

11/15/2012

Have you ever wondered how many different touch points you have with external partners?

I recently discussed the importance of determining and taking advantage of your extended supply chain partner collaboration technical and operational capabilities. This is a critical step and especially critical requirement in developing a strategy to develop and extend a collaborative framework ac...

11/13/2012

Come and read some pretty compelling reasons to embrace prototyping.

In my discussions related to a collaborative network supporting your extended supply chain a thread related to the importance of a robust continuous improvement program arose. Many leaders view it as a key underpinning of any strategy and requires a willingness to experiment and innovate. This le...

11/09/2012

Using Big Data in politics!

A surprising thing happened yesterday on the way to the election results, fact based analysis was validated, again, especially as it relates to the political election and campaigning process. In fact, at the bitter end it was almost comical to watch as some ‘very smart’ people were going through th...

11/07/2012

How does the election relate to your supply chain?

Over the last couple of months I’ve been thinking about the importance of fact based analysis as it relates to our professional lives, the extended supply chain and in recognition of the season (election year), political analysis. Its taken quite a while but some key realizations and factors have l...

11/04/2012

I invite your thoughts on compliance requirements relating to your collaborative network.

In this discussion I will continue my review of the three types of benefits that can be used to justify a new initiative, or program;

10/31/2012

What soft benefits can you define for your collaborative network?

I began the last discussion by calling out the three types of benefits that can be used to justify a new initiative, or program;

10/28/2012

My suggestions for hard ROI from collaboration

I began the last discussion by calling out the three types of benefits that can be used to justify a new initiative, or program;

10/14/2012

What are your views of the 'tripod factor'?

In my lastseries of postsI discussed the3 keys to acollaboration framework, or the three nodes of the collaborative network;