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Two practitioner frameworks, free to download, research published in 2026, and writing on manufacturing, distribution and commercial growth.
Book · 2023–24 · Free PDF · 61 pages
Manufacturers lose growth in the gaps between three engines: Manufacturing, Movement and Market. Across ten chapters the book covers demand-driven production, distribution strategy, market signals, a digital backbone for real-time data and shared governance, closing with a four-stage maturity model.
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Book · Free PDF · 73 pages
A ten-chapter guide to running direct-to-consumer as a full operating model, built on five pillars: Customer-Centric Strategy, Omnichannel Commerce, Operational Agility, Data Mastery, and Velocity & Scale. It ends with a maturity checklist.
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Why total sales can climb back above a baseline while parts of the product portfolio stay below it, and a diagnostic for measuring that gap, applied to a listed manufacturer’s 2022–2025 category sales.
DOI 10.4236/ajibm.2026.1610069 · CC BY 4.0
The American Journal of Interdisciplinary Innovations and Research
Why distribution partners can receive timely information yet still fail to act on it in time, and a framework for how information becomes coordinated action across organisations.
DOI 10.37547/tajiir/Volume08Issue10-02 · CC BY 4.0
International Journal of Research in Commerce and Management Studies
When evidence about AI from other sectors can be trusted for manufacturing decisions on revenue, suppliers, working capital and capacity, organised in the Manufacturing AI Decision-Fit (MAIDF) framework.
