Insight
Collaboration
Here we come to year 2019.
In my conversation with many business leaders
across region and globe, I am updated with mixed
business sentiments with many saying there is a cloud
of uncertainty due rapid transformation of business
models across industry verticals. I still subscribe
to view-points that within uncertainty there are
components which are certain — so identifying and
leveraging certain components to deal with uncertain
portion could help resolve.
Shashi Shekhar
Group Chairman & Founder, SCLG
Chairman & Managing Partner, innovaXL
twitter: @shashi_SCLG
Here is another way — communities have for
centuries practiced collaboration as an approach to
identify and resolve social and business challenges.
Collaboration is a proven tool to problem solving and
one of the biggest tools for business innovation and
transformation. For leading and managing supply
chain, collaboration across both vertical and horizontal
supply chain promises improved team work, motivation
and better business results.
Global trade in itself is the biggest form of supply chain
collaboration. Trade basically is exchange of goods and
services between two or multiple communities
located in one region or another with included
economics. Supply Chain and Logistics community
locally and globally has an opportunity to work towards
larger goal of eliminating trade barriers through
collaboration on both individual and organizational
level.
Collaboration across supply chain with suppliers and
customers for share of knowledge, data and resources
in solving challenges in itself will accelerate innovation
and also provide bigger ability to stop negative
business forces. Collaboration across boundaries
for innovation, transformation and problem solving
should be included more in supply chain planning and
execution — thinking of this in itself makes approach to
supply chain planning and execution more holistic.
Encouraging collaboration across organizational
boundaries and across region and globe helps
growth, innovation and positivity — as I said in SCLG
summit on 27 th NOV 2018, please just try 1% more
efforts towards collaboration and let me know the
results. And its collaboration among individuals and
organizations that brings robustness, cohesiveness
and resilience to deal with uncertainty. I wish you all
this year 2019 be marked by successful collaboration
for innovation, growth, positivity and happiness.
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