Kerry Huang
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Oct 1, 2026
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- Top 5K sites
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- Jul 17, 2026
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The Efficiency Trap: Why Cost-Cutting Drains Your Pressure Moat (opens the original)
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Dr. Kerry Huang is a Fortune Global 50 SCM AVP, ESI Top 1% highly cited author, and creator of the 6-ER Framework. Every operations leader has faced the same decision: An in-house capability is expensive to maintain, and its return is difficult to see in the current year. A cost review will find it, because that is what a cost review is built to do. The efficiency trap is that the line item easiest to cut is sometimes the one quietly holding a competitive position in place. The real cost of cut
The Pressure Moat Framework: What AI Strategy Cannot Build (opens the original)
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Dr. Kerry Huang is a Fortune Global 50 SCM AVP, ESI Top 1% highly cited scholar. Companies are pouring capital into AI on the assumption that it will produce competitive advantage. Much of that assumption is wrong, and the error is structural rather than strategic. If an AI capability is broadly available from a vendor, competitors can acquire something similar. What decides the outcome is not what AI gives you. It is what AI amplifies in what you already have. A pressure moat is the compoundin
The Pressure Moat Trap: Why Companies See The Damage Too Late (opens the original)
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Dr. Kerry Huang is a Fortune Global 50 SCM AVP, ESI Top 1% highly cited scholar. The trap is rarely the erosion itself. The trap is the months or years between when a pressure moat begins to erode and when the company finally sees it. Two companies face the same competitive shift. One responds within six months. The other waits six years, and by the time the slower one moves, the gap is too wide to close. One is still building moat; the other is now spending it. The difference is not strategy or
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