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…
Bangladesh is on the verge of a shrinking population!! Wow – what has this world come to and how did we get here? According to Doug Sanders, we might be at a tipping point in global population and may have hit “peak people”, just like peak oil (past the declining point of global supply-limn). He bases his assertions on a number of points which, if you agree with him, has tectonic (pardon the hyperbole) implications.
Dalip Raheja (President and CEO) and Anne Kohler (EVP and COO) have been honored by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as 2012 Provider Pros. This is the seventh time Anne and Dalip have been listed. The Provider Pros to Know list honors individuals from…
The New York Yankees! Rafael Nadal! Tiger Woods! Lionel Messi! Itzhak Perlman! Ernest Hemingway! What does this list have in common? We’ll get back to that later. The question I have for you is simple. Are you at the top of your game in your “sport”….meaning are you the Tiger Woods of Sourcing/Supply Chain?? Can you take over a game like Messi from Barca and re-define the way the game is played? Can you play the violin like Perlman?
As a recent victim of one of these unintended consequences, identity theft, I can tell you that trying to fix the problem FAR exceeds the efficiency that was initially created. By the way, my problems were not caused by a local hooligan but by a VERY sharp hacker (most likely tens of thousands of miles away) that helped himself to ALL my personal information.