A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- PE Buyout Outlook for 2026–Same Old, Same Old?
- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
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Category: Supply Chain Innovators
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One of the uglier aspects of supply chain operations is the huge amount of waste created by packaging materials. The following innovators are trying to "reverse the curse" of packaging disposal by using green, biodegradable materials. My thanks to the guys at Alarm Clock for scouting them out for me. Unfortunately, they will be competing…
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I had been watching Confego for about a year, with the idea of writing of eventually writing a post on their innovative mass customization technology once they got a bit more market traction. Then Zazzle scoops them up and will incorporate them in their overall product offering. Well, the post is still valid, so here…
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Last October, MooBella was featured in a Supply Chain Innovators Blog posting. Now, eighteen months from launching its self-contained premium ice cream vending machine, MooBella reports it has accepted its first round of institutional funding, with a $25 million infusion from W. Health LP, a venture fund managed by Inventages Venture Capital Investment, Inc. The…
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Disruptive, real time technologies will enable new revolutions in supply chain strategies and management. The ability to design mobile enterprise capabilities into new business models is one of the most interesting. Al Delattre of Accenture first introduced many of the new supply chain design concepts around mobile enterprises in a presentation to the Stanford Global…
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I sat in on an interesting presentation at a recent Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum. Peter Coughlan, Transformation Practice Leader at IDEO, spoke about Extreme Product Development and Innovation. Most of his presentation was about how IDEO developed exciting new products for the world’s leading companies. Interesting enough, but then he challenged the audience…
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I have a confession to make. Most of the supply chain strategy books I have read in the last 30 years or so are not very good. Many times I thought that I should write the definitive book on supply chain strategy, but never thought that I understood the complexities well enough to do it.…
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Boy, the guys at MIT really do think in different dimensions than the rest of us supply chain geeks. Olivier de Weck, associate professor of aeronautics and astronomics and engineering systems (these genius’s also have longer titles than the rest of us) and David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems and civil and environmental engineering, have…
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As my original post said a few months ago, LARTE’s are not a new Double Expresso drink at Starbucks, but rather Location Aware Real Time Enterprises. They are getting a lot of play in the VC Blogs of late, powered no doubt by the growing availability of GPSS/sensor/RFID and related data that can help companies…
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In a previous Blog, Where are the Supply Chain Entrepreneurs?, I asked why so few business networks have been started. Business networks would let companies collaborate on line with their suppliers to find new ways of improving supply chain efficiencies. MetroHorse is a B2C network that lets businesses post their profiles, consumers to place bids…
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Zoom Systems provides automated robotic retail stores in high-traffic area, full of brand name products you want to buy. Why are they supply chain innovators? Well, the short story is that they bring the right products to the right place at the right time, but at a much lower cost than traditional manufacturer/distributor/store networks, and…
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