Browsing: Disintermediation

By Ken Thompson What is the common thread in mentoring our family-owned business successors  and responding to forces seeking their disintermediation from the supply chain? Disintermediation – what a mouth full of syllables – and, once we get it past the lips, do we know what it means? You bet! It means someone wants to remove you  from your place in the supply chain and take your piece of the pie for themselves. Sound like “fighting words” to you? Disruption comes in many flavors. And every time a new one surfaces, it forces us to look at ourselves in the…