While I was growing up with my grandfather (who was quite a management whiz) in India, he explained the concept of inflation when I was quite young. He told me that people were going out and buying necessities and then storing them to protect against rising prices. India…
Hewlett-Packard is now in the middle of a huge decision. Spin-off the personal-computing division or not to spin off-that is the question. They have discovered that the split has bigger implications than previously thought and are now trying to decide which course of action to take. Click to learn what these implications are, where Hewlett-Packard is in the decision process, and how the Supply Chain organization has become a deal breaker.
This was a gathering of various Presidents of the ISM and NAPM regional chapters and they were gathered together in that capacity. They were trying to figure out how to become more relevant for their regional markets and their customer was the entire Procurement, Sourcing and Supply Chain community of that region. I decided to give them a perspective of their market based on a lot of the research that we have done and provided them with the proverbial Top Ten list (in no particular order).
Many organizations look at Risk as an evil, a challenge and even a four letter word. Risk can actually become a competitive advantage for a Supply Chain organization that knows how to identify and effectively manage it. Today’s blog focuses on insights from the Supply Chain All-Stars that recovered fastest after the Japanese Tsunami.
As events continue to unfold in Egypt, I keep thinking about whether there are any lessons from a supply chain perspective that we should be taking away. And the answer is, without discussing the religious or social aspects, of course there is. There are certainly the obvious risk…
