Supply Chain Resilience
DEMAND As the “new normal” emerges, we must become resilient. We are not there yet, because we have not understood the dynamics of risk. Risk is multidimensional and entails everyday…
Leadership
Slowing The Windmill of Hiring and Focus On Retaining Talent
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Problem For most companies, retention is at the top of their to-do list. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have faced unprecedented losses of talent and employees. One…
5 Successful Driver Retention Strategies
Today, we are here to discuss how to increase driver retention. The short video 5 Unique Tips for Driver Retention hopefully gets everyone thinking about this common challenge: how to…
Women In Supply Chain & Logistics
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.…
Five Questions For Leaders
This blog builds on studies conducted by researchers and principles at McKinsey and Company, and published as The Digital-led Recovery from COVID-19: Five Questions for CEOs in April 2020 [Fitzpatrick,…
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
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…
Risk Frameworks & Risk Maturity
SUPPLY CHAIN LOGISTICS – A BUSINESS ECO-SYSTEM In the 21st Century, we have emerged from process thinking into systems thinking. We have re-positioned global supply chains from linear operations focused…
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…