Have you ever been in a meeting with an internal stakeholder who doesn’t want any help on their category because it’s too complex, or is the creative service that can’t be effectively sourced or managed by anybody but the supplier and that stakeholder himself? Then this story is for you…
In the Business Week article “The [...]
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Knowledge @ Wharton China recently ran an interesting article that asked when are emerging markets no longer ‘emerging’?. According to the article, dozens of countries, many of which show signs of a strong and growing middle-class population, fall under the label even though they are evolving at their own pace and with their own [...]
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Get offa me! Away from me! Get me outa here! Don’t follow me! Don’t bother me! I’m no leader. from “Leader” on “Essentially Naked” by Bif NakedIn his latest article (Supply Management Transformation: A Leader’s Guide), Robert Rudzki of Transformation Leadership and Greybeard Advisors notes that he likes to ask two questions when [...]
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A recent Industry Week article on Implementing Supply Chain Management Solutions made a good point — the biggest factor in the collapse of supply chain management (SCM) implementations is … change — the type of change inflicted on an organization with little regard for how greatly it will impact the people and processes that serve [...]
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In the analyst industry, we used have a saying that “when the mainstream press catches on to a trend, it is certainly almost over.” I’d like to think that is the case with the automotive supply chain dilemma, but I’m afraid I would be wrong.
While Supply Excellence has been tracking the ongoing instability and decline [...]
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Industry Week recently ran another good article, and this one was on the five myths of import compliance that is worth focussing on.The five myths harbored by US importers of record that the article highlighted were as follows: Our risk exposure is limited to the Customs duties. An [...]
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While the economy has become the top issue for business and supply management executives alike, there remains some debate on how best to address it. Recent research of over 160 global procurement, finance, and supply chain executives offers some answers.
As its title suggests, the third-annual Spend Management Priorities and Challenges study reveals strategies and approaches [...]
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Industry week recently ran an article on how to recession proof your business by three authors that had a rather interesting take on how you go about this. According to the article, you start by identifying the tribes that constitute your business and determining where they are in their sociological progression. If they [...]
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With the outcome of what some are calling “the most important U.S. Presidential race ever” still uncertain, many business executives are fretting over the economic, tax, and trade policies of the eventual President No. 44.
Yet, savvy procurement and supply management professionals aren’t waiting for the election outcome. They know that, regardless of who wins the [...]
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It’s that time of year again where everyone gets conference fever – and the time of year where I recluse myself in the dark corners of my basement in the hopes that I can again avoid the annual malady that infects so many of us. But alas, although I’ve managed to escape the worst strains [...]
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