Ninja Retail: Retailers & Suppliers, A Three Legged Race or Synchronized Swimming?
Our Ninja Retail series focuses on the ways in which retailers can reduce inventory and working capital requirements. You can check out the introduction here. Our previous post was focused on how you can think faster as an organization to reduce inventory and respond to market trends faster. But that only helps so much if […]
Ninja Retail: Winning Companies Think Faster
Our Ninja Retail blog series focuses on the ways in which retailers can reduce inventory and working capital requirements. Read the introduction here. This blog post discusses the speed of thought of your organization as a whole. Humans think fast, companies think slow and computers think the fastest. Humans have imagination, companies have bureaucracies that […]
Anatomy of an Enterprise Process
In an environment defined by growing uncertainty and unpredictability, advantage favors not just the best plans but also the speed of change. Flexibility to move with the tide is essential, but real competitive advantage can be realized with intelligence to interpret the signals that indicate where the tide is headed, and the capability to […]
Ninja Retail: Life or death yesterday and today
The retail industry was in flux well before Covid-19 attacked all business activity. The retail apocalypse started tapering off by early 2019 with a new normal established. For the survivors omni-channel retail, the endless aisle, fast fulfillment / high availability of SKUs, immersive experiences in stores and better personalization were some of the key […]
Power or Chaos – what does your Organizational Knowledge steer you towards?
We live in a world today that not many would have imagined just a few weeks ago. Organizations of all kinds are struggling with new concepts of working. In this post we discuss the challenges that organizations face with knowledge sharing and management, some of which have become much more prevalent and impactful in today’s […]
Covid-19: New Challenges, New Opportunities
We had been forced to work from home for about a week when it became clear that the Covid-19 pandemic will change the business world as we know it. Thankfully the extended Zvolv family was already self isolating and safe. As a young company we found ourselves wondering if we’d survive the pandemic. We barely had a day to […]
The Rise of No-Code Development Platforms
The famous “Why Software Is Eating the World” essay in The Wall Street Journal was written almost a decade ago. There is no doubt today – every company needs to become a software company at some level or the other to survive and grow. No matter your industry, you’re expected to be reimagining your business processes […]
Adaptive vs predictive project management
If you don’t have a plan or the right tools to execute your plan, your goal is just a wish! No matter how good your team is, or how efficient your process definition is, if you are not managing the process with the right methodology and tools, you are setting yourselves up for an adventure […]
Building SaaS in India — Now is the Time!
Originally published by Kamini Shivalkar on medium Recently, we’ve seen a lot of action in SaaS. In the first half of 2019, Slack and Zoom were high profile tech IPOs. Icertis became 4th SaaS company from India valued at $1B+ (the first three being Zoho, Freshworks, and Druva). It is an exciting time to build a […]
A for Automation, B for Bots, C for Confusion…
The word “Bot” has a lot of negative human emotions attached to it, mostly due to incomplete information. Human response to hearing the word “bot” has become more Pavlovian (machines taking over the world) over a period of time as very few people have a complete understanding of the word. So, let’s set the record […]