Shedding a Light on Supply Chain
The Founder of Supply Chain Insights, Lora Cecere, has an open discussion with Alison Crawford on the current state of supply chain research and the work that is being done by the Supply Chain Insights team. How should companies think about open content research and drive supply chain excellence? Straight Talk With Supply Chain Insights – […]
A Personal Invitation
Today, I am excited to announce the launch of a community to help the supply chain professional. The community is open, available for all to share content, and engage in two-way dialogue in a meaningful way. Over the last six months we have pre-populated content—videos, podcasts, infographics, maturity models, and research studies—to spark impactful conversations. […]
Driving Research Excellence
Pumpkin lattes. Colored leaves lining the streets. Frost on the car windows in the morning. No doubt about it, fall is here. I love the crisp air and blue skies of fall. For me, the fall season is a good time to reflect and start new things. The rhythm of starting new things in September […]
Lenovo – Global Culture and Supply Chain Excellence with Mick Jones
Listen as Lora Cecere, Founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, as she interviews Mick Jones, VP of Global Logistics at Lenovo, as he talks about the onboarding and integrating the x86 supply chain from IBM. Mick discusses the 5 things that define us: the will to win, ability to fail successfully, the absolute focus […]
New Books for Your Bookshelf
This year, we will publish two new books: Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and The Shaman’s Journal. We are adding these two new books for your bookshelf to stand beside Bricks Matter which published in December, 2012. In 2015, it is our goal to publish another new book, Lessons in Supply Chain Leadership. Each book takes […]
Serving the Industry
I am convinced that we know supply chain management matters, but that we do not have hardcore data to support it. I also believe that the supply chain is a complex system with complex processes with increasing complexity. The system has finite trade-offs that companies know empirically, but don’t understand mathematically. The supply chain index is designed […]
Looking back. Looking forward.
Starting a business, writing a book and launching a new business model is a tall order. It has been 2 ½ months, and I am happy to report that we are making progress against our goals. We are committed to redefining the analyst model one step at a time. Our Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) […]