Value Chains, Supply Chains, & Our Wrong Mindsets

Michael Porter introduced the Value Chain model in his seminal book, Competitive Advantage,1 in 1985.  The value chain broke down activities of the firm (the enterprise) and how they collectively contribute to the value of products & services.  How well activities perform and interrelate would manifest in the margins, which are the difference between valueContinue reading “Value Chains, Supply Chains, & Our Wrong Mindsets”

People Aren’t Changing, We Are

The late reverend Fr. Rafael Cortina(†), S.J., the counsellor for my senior high school class in 1980, said it a few times: people aren’t changing; you are.  Fr. Cortina’s context was as we young people grow up, we encounter changes in our environment.  We think it’s the people around us who are changing but inContinue reading “People Aren’t Changing, We Are”