Find the right partner

Will he be a good partner? or even co-founder?  We often ask ourselves the same question when working with or even co-found a company with someone.

Here are several pictures to tell whom you should trust and work with.

From "Outclassing Sourcing Champions" by Karan Girotra

-------- Definitely No!!!!!!
what he is thinking is to take others down and have most shares of current "CAKE".

From "Outclassing Sourcing Champions" by Karan Girotra

From "Outclassing Sourcing Champions" by Karan Girotra

-------- Worthwhile!
We want collaboration and make the current "CAKE" twice bigger or more rather than focus on how much share we get today! Future is the utter most goal and a much bigger "CAKE".

Why business analytics?

"Scientist often do science for the sake of science, while practitioners in a busy environment tend to rely on gut feel rather then utilizing the opportunities of analysis. When will the two unite bringing science to Supply Chain Management in similar ways that have boosted fields like medicine, finance and aviation?" ---- Bravo Lucy

Optimization Challenges

Optimization itself is never isolated, and without data it is just a skeleton without flesh. Data, not toy data, but real industrial data, large scale. Otherwise our work means nothing! Agree ?


 "A world in which the primary industries—transportation, healthcare, energy—were becoming more instrumented and interconnected, and intelligent, producing data that could be used to improve the quality of our lives and our work across a variety of industries"