REMEMBRANCE WEEK 2020
Remembrance Week 2020 We are the dead, Short days ago We lived, felt dawns, saw sunsets glow; Loved and were loved – but now we lie In Flanders Field At…
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The Pain of P.A.In
We have had a few people ask if we noticed the Professional in Applied Innovation designation reads out as “pain”. The short answer: yes, yes we have. The longer answer,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What Needs To Be Done
In the face of the pandemic, let’s begin by admitting that we can’t eliminate risk. That is principle number one. We need a 2-fold strategic approach: handling risk as it…
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