Visual checklist Mission Command

Checklist, Trends

Checklist for Mission Command leadership

In 2010, Professor Stephen Bungay proposed that companies could apply the military concept of Mission Command leadership as a way of coping with the challenges imposed by the fast-changing and unpredictable dynamics in business environments. …

new skills

Trends

Supply chain requires new talent and new skills

Supply chains are largely back to normal following the pandemic, apart from one thing: a strong need for new talent and new skills, according to a recent study by Korn Ferry. Nearly eight out of …

McKinsey

Books, Trends

McKinsey exposed

Late last year, a remarkable book was published about the world of consulting. Generally speaking, consultants are expected to remain neutral and they learn how to psychologically arm themselves against clients who want to misuse …

Sean Culey

Trends

Sean Culey: Current crisis is the prelude to a new golden age

The mass layoffs at Facebook, Google and Amazon and the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank are all signs that we have reached a tipping point, beyond which lies the dawn of a new ‘golden age’ …

Software, Trends, Whitepaper

Whitepaper: Transition to a more sustainable supply chain

From January 1st, 2024, large companies in Europe must report transport emissions, including companies that outsource transport. Companies must report on CO2, CH4, and N2O emissions, from Scope 1 to Scope 3 emissions, upstream and …

Planning, Trends, Whitepaper

Whitepaper: Boost your performance with demand planning

Sales forecasts (or demand planning) is a strategic element for companies facing stock or replenishment issues. A sales forecasting process is a combination of different steps in order to define what will be the demand …

disruptions

Reports, Trends, Visibility

BDO: ‘Customers want service, not excuses’

Customers want service, not excuses for disruptions, cautions R.J. Romano, Global Supply Chain Executive & Consultant at US-based BDO Supply Chain Advisory. That’s why visibility technology is vital for manufacturers, he says. Companies that let difficult …

Sweep

Sustainability, Trends

Supply chain scale-up in the spotlight: Sweep

Sweep wants companies to see carbon not as a limitation, but rather as a creative force for innovation and positive growth. Therefore, it is helping customers to confront carbon to get their unique climate journey …

BISCI

Sustainability, Trends

BISCI: Joining forces for circularity

The fact that achieving a circular society is primarily a matter of joining forces was underlined during the event ‘Dare to be circular’. This event, organized by the Brightlands Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (BISCI) …

women in supply chain

Trends

Number of women in supply chain is growing, but painfully slowly

The importance of International Women’s Day became especially clear during a recent Webinar Wednesday, which revealed that the share of women in supply chain is growing, but only very slowly. Within today’s male-dominated workplaces, too …