Sep 23, 2016
I had the opportunity to spend some time at IBM’s Research Triangle Park facility, (the actual hosting site for the Watson computer) this past week. IBM hosted a roundtable for…
Aug 6, 2016
It is that time of year again, and the SCRC team is getting ready to prepare for a new semester starting the week of August 15th! As always, we have…
Apr 26, 2016
We kicked off the 33rd SemiAnnual SCRC Partner Meeting today, with a room full of people from various segments of government, industry, and academic attending. We kicked off the session…
Jan 15, 2016
An article published in the Wall Street Journal identifies what I have been saying for years now….Supply chain talent is a hot commodity! Many of the skills that we’ve identified in…
Oct 23, 2015
This is a guest post from Director Clyde Crider of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, based on an MBA panel he sat in on yesterday at NC State’s Poole College of…
Oct 20, 2015
Bloomberg Businessweek released its MBA rankings today, placing the Jenkins MBA at number 29 among full-time MBA programs in the United States. This ranking is a notable jump from number 54 just…
Sep 3, 2015
The Supply Chain Management Review, one of the leading practitioner journals in the field of supply chain, is hosting their first ever conference in November at the Rosemount Hilton at…
Aug 24, 2015
Every fall, Betty Minton and Bill Collins (my trusted and capable student project advisors) and I play a game of musical chairs. The challenge involves matching a group of bright,…
Jun 10, 2015
A recent review by Peter Smith of my new book, “The Procurement Value Proposition”, co-authored with Gerard Chick, provides some solid support for the message Gerard and I were seeking…
Jun 4, 2015
One of my recent students from last year, Gaurav Chhabra, just graduated this semester, and landed a job in Apple’s supply chain organization. I had a chance to catch up with Guarav…