{"id":19,"date":"2006-06-22T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-08-15T08:25:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T13:25:46","slug":"creating-competitive-advantage-in-supply-chains-real-differentiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/22\/supply-chain-management\/creating-competitive-advantage-in-supply-chains-real-differentiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Competitive Advantage in Supply Chains &#8211; Real Differentiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post on <a title=\"Creating sustainable competitive advantage in your supply chain\" href=\"http:\/\/at-scm.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/creating-sustainable-competitive.html\">Creating sustainable competitive advantage in your supply chain<\/a>, I ended it thinking that the true source of competitive advantage that is available for firms is differentiation. Here is an <a title=\"iPod's source of competitive advantage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/reactor\/12.05_ipod_trademark.asp\">article<\/a> by James Conley that describes the competitive advantage created by Apple with its iPod series of MP3 players.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Frog Design&#8217;s Luke Williams suggests that the &#8220;clean&#8221; look of this product is an intentional consequence of references to the white ceramic and polished chrome tropes of the humble bathroom design experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post on Creating sustainable competitive advantage in your supply chain, I ended it thinking that the true source of competitive advantage that is available for firms is differentiation. Here is an article by James Conley that describes the competitive advantage created by Apple with its iPod series of MP3 players. Frog Design&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategy","category-supply-chain-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->