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Innovation via vendor un-consolidation
This should be must watching for CIOs and procurement folks and of course large tech vendors who preach vendor consolidation and “single-source, wall-to-wall coverage”
John Hagel on how the Chinese in particular are innovating through vast, scalable networks of suppliers with deep specialization
With smaller vendors “the person on the other side is not a lawyer or a procurement person – it’s someone who ran a plant like mine”
As for lack of IP protection “I need to continually innovate …so I can stay a step ahead …even though I know I am being copied”
Via Dennis Howlett
July 29, 2009 in Industry Commentary | Permalink