An activist investor is technically defined as an individual or group that purchases a large number of a company’s shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the company’s board with the intent of effecting a major change in the company. A (public) company can become a target for an activist investor if it is mismanaged, […]
As per our last post, SIM (Supplier Information Management) is a mature and stable technology with a large number of suppliers not only providing the tools and best practices to manage supplier life-cycles, but to manage risk, compliance, receivables, and even spend repositories for spend management. It’s almost a commodity in the Supply Management Space, […]
But don’t look to e-Auctions to save the day. As per SI’s recent post, the entanglements of e-Auctions could get in the way. Last fall, e-Sourcing Forum published a two-part series on M&A and e-Auctions, stating that what’s old may be new again (Part I and Part II), which claimed that e-Auctions could be a […]
By now, everyone knows the story of K-Mart, and its bankruptcy that was well chronicled in Marcia Layton Turner’s book on Kmart’s Ten Deadly Sins: How Incompetence Tainted an American Icon, which was summarized in a recent article by Vivek Sehgal on why Business Strategy Should Design and Determine Supply Chains over on the Supply […]
But it does make competition hard and collusion easy. So what am I referring to now? As recently expounded upon in this recent article in the online version of The Economist, UPS has made a bid for TNT (Express), the fourth largest logistic carrier in the world, the second largest in Europe, and the largest […]