Every day some events occur to us that we have ZERO control over.
However, we have 100% control over our response.
For example, a draw bridge, train crossing, or an auto accident may delay your commute home from a long day’s work. Rather than getting mad or angry, use the newly found time to your benefit.
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If you are a CEO, CXO, senior leader, company owner, or supply chain manager of a company that provides products and/or services to customers, this eBook is for you. A global group of independent management consultants—with decades of experience working to develop competitive advantage, profit, and growth for their clients—have collaboratively created this just for you and your team. This eBook is one in a series and will focus on Supply Chain Management (SCM).
SCM is a vital strategic competency in any organization. It encompasses the processes and activities necessary to design, make, deliver, and support a product or service. Disruptive forces remind us how important it is to integrate supply chain strategy with business strategy and to have well thought-out crisis management, mitigation, and contingency plans in place for when the unexpected occurs.
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Happy Halloween Team Art!
October has been a busy month! We traveled to Spain to see my father-in-law; I had my 60th birthday and attended Christina and John’s beautiful wedding.
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Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Series
Volume 3 | Number 10 | October 2020
What if I were to tell you that you have an untapped resource within your organization and that it’s free to you if you know how to slow down and dive in and find it? It is how leaders discover, cultivate, and sustain the hidden genius in their organization.
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Competition has been and always will be tough, so get over it!
What if I were to tell you that you have an untapped resource within your organization and that it’s free to you if you know how to slow down and find it?
Lead from the HEART.
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Welcome to this issue of “How to Strengthen and Grow your Business.” In these unique and challenging times, there are opportunities to strengthen, to grow, and to become more valuable to your existing customers and to new customers.
We are all innovators. We innovate when a customer says no to a sale, and we figure out how to improve. We innovate when we develop a new offering and promote it to our existing customers and to new prospects. The key is to take action, keep your feet moving, fail fast, figure things out, adjust, and persist.
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I guess it takes a pandemic for many corporations to wake up and understand the same values I’ve been instilling with clients since 1989?
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Art Koch’s Profit Chain® Series
Volume 3 | Number 9 | September 2020
What is entropy? It’s the old farmhouse falling into disrepair. Have you started the day with a game plan, and before you get in the door of your office, “Poof,” the plans have vanished into thin air? It feels as though the day is managing you, rather than you managing the day. It is Entropy at work.
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Art’s Law #3 1% = 50%
The 80/20 Rule is not sustainable for problem resolution. We need to think about 80/15/4/1. Where the last 1% of demand typically represents 50% of business complexity.
The last 1% of demand or purchases create 50% of the customers, suppliers, or product numbers.
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