... Supply Chain Leaders Adapt and Thrive By Stan Aronow | October 15, 2021 I recently had the privilege of moderating a virtual Leaders in Action (LIA) event on the theme of customer-driven business transformation, co-hosted by Lowe’s EVP Supply Chain, Don Frieson. A wide-ranging group of COOs and CSCOs ...
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... most take no more than one year. Men also increasingly play the stay-at-home parent role. In fact, our group was asked how many had husbands who had yielded to wives’ careers to enable upward progression. I counted at least 12 hands among the 40+ women in the audience. Advocacy – Senior leaders can help ...
... also help with detailed monitoring of equipment, buildings and fixtures, or even wearables and implanted devices. On the supply-sensing side, IoT, GPS and cloud computing platforms offer new ways to know what is happening upstream. As with demand sensing, the role of advanced analytics is critical if supply ...
... not knowing where you’re going. Eager as they were to make money and blessed with knowledge gained by others, the Dutch “did their homework and were well prepared when they set sail.” In the process they became “world leaders in cartography.” In today’s terms, what the Dutch invented was essentially supply ...
... under the bus by Amazon before, are not likely to embrace partnership with a customer that is actively undercutting their core business. Bezos plays seven years in the future So, is Amazon being stupid? Not at all. Bezos freely admits that he’d rather play the long game than compete in the now, or even in ...
... transparency with an exploding communications infrastructure provided mostly via mobile phones and internet connectivity (see chart). A billion new consumers, most of whom lack almost everything we in the north now take for granted, can suddenly see and buy from the same catalogues that we do. Now, if ...
... flow of traffic that is likely to come through the intersection. Those using the roundabout must know and understand the rules of driving through the roundabout. Those using the roundabout must be willing to follow the rules of driving through the roundabout. For supply chain leaders this means we need ...
... Coping with enormous customer-driven complexity from the telecoms carriers who buy most of its gear, Huawei is learning very quickly how to use platforming in its supply chain strategy. Software-enabled networks are a critical trend that Huawei could end up leading. Back in Hong Kong I met with the Chief ...
... roll with a shifting set of disruptors means going deeper than tactical resilience. And it requires recreating your enterprise operating model (EOM) in a way that allows for greater adaptability in shorter time horizons. Hill and Otter call out that typical operating model transformations take too long ...