Chapter 3 The Integrator: Orchestrating an Interdependent Supply Chain Network
DOI: 10.4324/9781315300368-5
Sometimes people go ahead and divide an elephant in half anyway. You don’t have two small elephants then; you have a mess. By a mess, I mean a complicated problem where there is no leverage to be found because the leverage lies in interactions that cannot be seen from looking only at the piece you are holding.
—Peter M. Senge1
A view of network against network means that the companies with access to the best networks not only can outperform competitors today, but also have the capacity to flexibly outperform them tomorrow. This ...
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