 |
||
Business Strategy for Software Executives |
November 24, 2008 |
|
|
SaaS Revamps the Supply ChainHigh-tech companies need to take advantage of SaaS-model benefits for real-time visibility into their supply chain—especially in tight economic times.By Jim Burleigh, SmartTurn Often when I speak with executives at high-tech companies about their supply chain solutions, I’m shocked. They’re presumably people with a strong affinity for using technology to improve their business, but most of them are still dealing with archaic technologies and manual processes for handling the inventory and warehouse management challenges of manufacturing companies. It’s almost like the cobbler’s children not having shoes. They have applied technology to their marketing, sales, manufacturing, and design processes; but they struggle with supply-chain fundamentals and lack technology that enables real-time visibility across their supply chains. The good news is that this scenario is changing. Savvy vendors are using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) combined with cutting-edge social networking concepts to resolve longstanding challenges in the technology supply chain.
|
||
Incremental Innovation Helped Toyota Lap GM
8 Legal Tips for SaaS Vendors
Publish Your Perspective!SandHill.com wants your opinions. Send your thoughts on the enterprise software industry to SandHill.com editor, Maryann Jones Thompson (maryann@sandhill.com) and have your opinions published on our site. Assessing Innovation MetricsThe results of a new McKinsey Global Survey show that many companies think they are doing a good job of measuring innovation when in fact there is significant room for improvement. Read why in this feature from The McKinsey Quarterly. News Update: Banking on ChangeMicrosoft is free, Yahoo’s Yang is out; plus a Smart Planet and sacred cows. Read these stories and more software news of the week in the latest SandHill.com Software News Summary. Poll: Supply Chain Optimized?Is your company’s supply chain as streamlined as it should be? Last week, readers estimated the realization of their company’s maintenance/service revenue potential. More at SandHill.com:Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls for innovation bailout. Agilence receives $4 million; CEO describes the fundraising climate. IBM acquires Transitive Corporation. Bill Evans named CEO of Arkeia Software. Send us your feedback on this newsletter and the SandHill.com site. Parting Thought“The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” Courtesy of Malcolm Kusher, The Kushner Group |
THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR
The Strategic Executive Search (SES) Group is the leading, Asia-based, fully-retained practice in executive search, with pioneering offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Shanghai, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, and Taipei. Together with our partners in the Americas and EMEA, we bring the combined strength of 55 offices and a technology executive search practice with more than two decades of experience, to the assistance of our clients, in helping them to attract and retain their senior leadership teams. SOFTWARE PULSESoftware Pulse is a publication of SandHill.com, the online resource for software business strategy. To subscribe, To unsubscribe, see the bottom of this email. Send us your feedback, SandHill.com is published by Sand Hill Group, which provides investment and management advice to emerging leaders in the $600 billion enterprise software, services and solutions market. Sand Hill Group produces the Software and the Enterprise series of conferences for industry executives, and authors research reports on cutting-edge technology topics. |
|
A look at the electric car strategies of Toyota and GM underscores the benefits of incremental innovation. Read why in 
As the market for SaaS products stays strong despite the economic downturn, Gene Landy of Ruberto, Israel & Weiner 