The evolution of artificial intelligence has progressed rapidly, transitioning from the foundational machine learning algorithms of the 1980s to the current era of generative AI. This transformation, driven by exponential increases in computing power, algorithmic efficiency, cloud computing, and the proliferation…
Warehouse Management Canvas
It is important to highlight that even the warehouse canvas is built on the sustainability of the improvements. The tool does not substitute the need for a remarkable Warehouse Manager with the skill of change management and making things sustainable and…
The Lost Link to Make Strategy Work: Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
What is Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)? The S&OP is a tool that was created in the 70s with the purpose of operations planning mainly for manufacturing environments. Since then, the planning tool has expanded its scope to other departments and…
Using Digital Transformation as a Turnaround Tool
The rate of technology innovation is part of the digital disruption challenge facing companies, department, teams and employees. That disruption is threaten many traditional businesses like banking or my last turnaround assignment that is a traditional software reseller threaten by cloud…
Quick and Inexpensive B2B Guerrilla Marketing Transformation to Revamp Revenue
As Jay Conrad Levinson said in his book Guerrilla Marketing “failure to upgrade your marketing effort is a symptom of corporate demise.” Many firms need to revitalize or even turnaround their growth strategy. Nevertheless, without a marketing transformation or deep review,…
Annual Budget: Are You Using Budget As a Real Strategic Execution Tool?
People and structure must be reviewed In many companies the people review process leading for Human Resources is not 100% connected with the budget process. Probably because there are still companies that in their understanding budget process is a “pure financial”…
Tax Efficient Supply Chain Management: TESCM Strategies
We have to mention that this very attractive TESCM strategy has some risks that need probably be mitigated with support of experienced tax consultancy firms. In the last years many large corporations have moved headquarters to countries like Switzerland, and any…
Quick Financial Firms Analysis: Extended DuPont Model
Extended DuPont Model contributions It shows information about the main traditional economic value indicators: Net income, Cash flow, ROA, and ROE. The model is based on ratios that can be easily and quickly created extracting the information from the income statement…
Creative Destruction in Human Resources: Creating High Performance Teams with the 20–70–10 Rule
We should ask ourselves a few key questions in order to know if the tool is adding value or not to our organization: Can our companies allow itself to maintain poor performers? Nowadays markets globalization, weaker economic drivers, intense competition, product…
Is Profitable and Justified Strategically Maintaining Our Current Network Of Facilities?
Products, customers and offices unprofitable must be identified and make profitably or we should take the decision to remove them. Many times it is assumed that facilities network are a strategic long-term decision, so it is not reviewed the strategic convenience…