Two years after the tsunami that devasted northwestern Japan in 2011, I was talking with a supply chain leader challenged with how her organization was performing. She recalled her company’s…
As with any recent traumatic experience, we tend to view everything through that lens and it’s difficult for that bias not to strongly influence decisions. The pandemic is a case…
The lockdown earlier this year due to COVID-19 presented an opportunity for me to pull out my New Year’s resolution list to see what I could do in my new,…
In these precarious and difficult times for the global economy, the Asia-Pacific region is feeling the pain. The impact of the coronavirus on the region will be severe, extensive and…
When the news broke on Microsoft’s bid for the U.S. arm of TikTok, the only surprise was the unconventional way in which the target was forced onto the auction block….
While the coronavirus pandemic is a global tragedy that has disrupted many lives and businesses, it has brought clarity to supply chain leaders. Almost universally, supply chain leaders identified their…
One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on global manufacturing is a significant uptick in the interest in cloud-native/cloud-enabled solutions for manufacturing operations. What took so long? Gartner, in…
“The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the…
I recently read an article about the “future of procurement,” in which the authors highlighted how the procurement function will evolve from one exclusively focused on cost control to one…
How good is your company at defining and managing product and portfolio complexity? If you are like many companies, it’s a serious challenge to do this well. At a time…