Mar 28, 2026
In earlier posts, as part of my book FLOW: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive, I predicted how the world would move towards increased on-shoring activity, including a “Pan American”…
Sep 6, 2025
The challenges associated with supply chain disruptions are everywhere in the news. Most recently, global supply chains have been thrown into chaos by US tariff policies and regulatory shifts that…
Aug 15, 2025
A recent post by David Shillingford on Linked In, draws attention to one of the most pressing issues facing our AI future. Electricity. AI experts travelled to China, and were…
Jul 11, 2025
The current world stage is in a state of complete confusion as to how global trade and supply chains will continue to be shaped. The July 9 tariffs were pushed…
May 29, 2025
This morning’s NYTimes announced a decision by a court that is throwing another sudden question around the tariff question…”On Wednesday, the Court of International Trade, the primary federal legal body…
May 23, 2025
The announcement of tariffs on “Liberation Day” has created a cascading set of outcomes for global supply chains. The first impact was that every US-based company has essentially gone into…
May 20, 2025
I was recently asked about a few questions related to how managers should be navigating the waters around the tariff uncertainty, AI, contracting, and a host of other issues. Here…
Mar 19, 2025
My colleague Jon Pershke, a former Lenovo strategy executive who now serves as a Faculty Advisor at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, recently presented me with the following scenario. :Let’s…
Feb 24, 2025
Tariffs are likely coming… what should you and your key global suppliers be doing to get ready for it? Last week I sat in on a great panel at the…
Sep 24, 2024
As the world economy became increasingly globalized, supply chains also became more global. As a consequence, never in our industrial economic history had competition become so intense so quickly. North…
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