Logistics & Innovation
Peter Drucker is known for saying, “[T]HE PURPOSE OF BUSINESS IS TO CREATE A CUSTOMER, THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE HAS TWO–AND ONLY TWO–BASIC FUNCTIONS: MARKETING AND INNOVATION. MARKETING AND INNOVATION PRODUCE…
Supply Chain Logistics – Agility and Flexibility
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SUPPLY CHAIN LOGISTICS – FLEXIBILITY Establishing organizational excellence, seeing strength in risk and leveraging risk knowledge to competitive advantage are the foundation on which Global SCL strategy becomes flexible and…
Embracing Complexity
STRATEGIC THINKING – CALL TO ACTION How do we answer the call to action? Where do we begin? Let’s talk about strategy and strategizing as the key differentiator. “Strategic Planning…
FROM RISK TO RESILIENCE: A LEADERSHIP STRATEGY
PREFACE By my own reckoning, these blogs are intense. They are not directly about how important or essential supply chain and logistics are; nor do they discuss how good logistics…
Supply Chain Resilience
There are lessons to learn from the coronavirus pandemic. The world is integrally connected. We do not actually live in independent nations, whatever our sense of national identity. We live…
What is the goal of change?
Management by definition is about control, creating process and developing checklists to ensure compliance. Enablement, on the other hand, is about creating patterns of interaction which allow individuals to grow…
CHANGE LEADERSHIP: ENABLING CHANGE
Leadership development doesn’t work because it fails to address the totality of who and what we are as human beings. It fails to recognize the profound depths of our inner…
Blog Series Part 6: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
What makes Applied Innovation a strategic leader’s toolkit? As strategic thinkers, we need to learn new ways of thinking [using such tools as fringe mapping] as well as different ways of…
Blog Series Part 5: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
In Part 5 of the video blogs series, we are going to look at one particular tool in the Applied Innovation toolkit, and that is Fringe Mapping: a tool that…
Blog Series Part 4: The Importance Of Strategic Leadership
In Part 4 of the video blogs series, we’ll explore one of these tools – bias analysis. The focus of this discussion will be on cognitive biases, not stereotypical biases.…