Securing Multi-Cloud Manufacturing Systems In A Zero Trust World
Bottom Line: Private equity firms are snapping up manufacturing companies at a quick pace, setting off a merger and acquisition gold rush, while leaving multi-cloud manufacturing systems unprotected in a Zero Trust world. Securing the Manufacturing Gold Rush of 2019 The intensity private equity (PE) firms have for acquiring and aggregating manufacturing businesses is creating […]
PwC-Booz: The seven year itch
The recent PwC decision to acquire Booz took me back to younger days when I was an reluctant accountant at PW (the C came later after it merged with Coopers). I had little desire to do time in auditing or get a CPA certificate, but that was a requirement back them to qualify for its […]
The three tenets of Global Business Services execution: customer alignment, accountability, and economies of scale
So how do you take shared services leaders and blend their expertise with the outsourcing governors? How do you go from fragmented service delivery with multiple points of contact, to a global governance model with a rationalized and centralized administration of third-party service providers?
PwC Quarterly Forecast Brings More Legitimacy to 21st Century Collaboration
PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers just released its quarterly forecast that’s 68 pages of collaboration goodness. The report is edited and produced by Bo Barker, Vinod Baya and Alan Morrison. The document covers three broad themes: The collaboration paradox: More social information helps the workforce find what it’s looking for. First we had communication silos inside organizations. Now […]
The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Supplier Management, Cost Reduction and Beyond (Part 1)
I’ve gotten to know a number of procurement executives and former executives at some of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies over the past few years. And to say that the industry was in the midst of a transformation with pr…
