Sep 13, 2011
Attending the IDN Summit in Phoenix today, one wouldn’t know by the relaxed atmosphere at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore that there is significant tension in the air….until you sit down…
Sep 9, 2011
In recent discussions with industry analyst Pierre Mitchell from the Hackett Group, we spent some time talking about whether ERP systems (such as SAP and Oracle) provide any level of…
Sep 1, 2011
The Wartime Contracting Report came out today and announced $30B in waste in Iraq, and focused on the fact that there was a lot of graft and corruption taking place.…
Aug 30, 2011
A company we spoke with noted that the turnover rate for their Chinese employees working in their logistics operations is higher than any other facility in the world (>10%). Why?…
Aug 28, 2011
Many financial services companies today are facing increasing regulation,not just around mortgage approval processes, but also on their supply chain. The focus of this has been in the area of…
Aug 17, 2011
The value of supply chain intelligence coming from street level knowledge is a recurring theme that people are struggling to understand. The military is a good case study of how…
Aug 10, 2011
Extending my thinking from my prior post….I think it’s time for enterprises to begin to drive decision-making based on ground-level intelligence – not just a centralized view. I recently finished…
The instability in the current global economic system driving stock market drops is suddenly a topic of great concern. What’s going on here? Clearly the selling is driven to some…
Aug 6, 2011
Yesterday evening, the S&P credit rating agency downgraded U.S. sovereign debt from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. As noted by my good friend Jason Schenker, an economic forecaster,…
Aug 3, 2011
Yesterday’s WSJ shared an interesting story about the application of reverse auctions to the legal profession. For those of you who don’t know what these are, we have a long…