While scanning Logistics Management, an article by Jeff Berman that said a new approach for sustainable supply chains is needed caught my eye. I’m a big believer in sustainability, but I’m also a strong believer that in their effort to jump on the bandwagon, some companies, governments, and individuals are doing – to be [...]
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The House Energy and Commerce sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations had some of the nation’s top food company CEOs on the witness stand this week. Congress’ look at the record breaking recall of 143,000,000 lbs of beef, piled on top of the tainted vegetable stories of the last year, serves to highlight another example of [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this second part of this two part series, we are going to review the remaining trends [...]
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Mehdi Hassan, blogging for South Asia Biz, recently highlighted a Forrester report on the growing dissatisfaction with IT outsourcing in India. As Hassan points out, firms are struggling with the falling dollar, unrealistic expectations, scalability, possible tax code changes and believe it or not, scarcity of top IT talent.
I couldn’t agree more with the assertion [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this two part series, we are going to review each of the trends and give you [...]
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The Feature for the January Issue of the Harvard Business Review is The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter where he reaffirms and updates his classic 1979 paper that revolutionized the field of strategy.The five Porter forces that shape Industry Competition are: Threat of New Entrants [...]
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The dip in soybean production caused by farmers gravitating to ethanol production got you down? Well, the 2/25 issue of Business Week (sorry it’s print only, but a PDF version of the article is here) highlights another potential shortage you might see in 2008: Television ad time.
The shortage is caused by the need for [...]
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Are we in a recession? Unknown. However, you do know whether or not you believe we are in one, and if you do believe we are in one, you’re likely to go overboard on belt-tightening and cost-cutting. That’s why I want to point out a great article that appeared on Business Week last [...]
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Earlier this month, Integrity Interactive announced the formation of a Supplier Ethics Management (SEM) Charter Group with Ryder System, Inc., H. J. Heinz Company, and bioMerieux as founding members. The goal of this initiative, as outlined in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Article on Combining Forces to Improve Ethics and Compliance in the [...]
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I hope you enjoyed this special mini-series on Talent and associated issues this week. With the talent crunch about to hit in a big way, we could all be losers in the talent war if we don’t start taking steps to make sure we have the talent we need in place when we need [...]
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