May 1, 2012
A number of great presentations from today’s SCRC meeting focused on how different organizations are thinking about managing their talent supply chain. I helped to set the stage by applying…
Apr 25, 2012
Our upcoming SCRC meeting (April 30-May 1 in Raleigh, NC) is one that I am sure will peak a lot of interest in today’s supply chain professional. The theme of…
Apr 24, 2012
An MBA student team in my supply market intelligence class this week presented their supply market intelligence study on phosphate production. One of the key points was the volatility of…
Apr 18, 2012
I had an opportunity to meet with the executive team at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix this week, and learned a great deal about the interesting challenges that exist in the…
Apr 10, 2012
An article in the WSJ provides an interesting set of perspectives on what increasing or shrinking inventory numbers might mean in terms of an organization’s supply chain performance. As I…
Apr 4, 2012
In this week’s Economist, an article by Schumpeter provides some interesting views on the emerging concept of “frugal innovation”. He cites the example of the Tata Nano, a $2,000 car…
Apr 3, 2012
I recently spoke with Todd Taylor from Apptivo, who is writing a book on IT technology management. Apptivo provides IT business technology management, and is focused on transparency of IT…
Apr 2, 2012
In a recent set of interviews, I had an opportunity to learn about some of the recent developments in the aerospace industry, that is happening in both commercial and defense…
Mar 22, 2012
There appears to be more unrest in the world this week, which of course brings with it the increased nervousness of analysts and speculators. One of the real questions arising…
Mar 11, 2012
In a recent conference in Charlotte hosted by Moore & Van Allen, I saw on a panel with Phillip Grigsby, SVP of Commercial Transmission at Duke Energy, and JoAnn Carlton,…