Most CEOs know intuitively that profit drives shareholder value. Yet many of them fail to realise that this begins with a superior supply chain, which then translates into economic value and hence shareholder value. With such statements, ‘The New...

Different customer value propositions require different supply chain approaches – that is the essence of what Professor David Simchi-Levi, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, hopes to get across in his book ‘Operations Rules...

With efficiency and productivity at work currently being more important than ever before, most managers feel that they are working harder yet achieving less. Ron Ashkenas has identified four major causes of complexity in an organisation: structural...

All true leaders have been formed by a crucial experience in their past, and most of these crucial experiences occurred outside rather than within the safe confines of work or school, and at unexpected moments. In his intriguing book entitled â€...

The American political scientist and forecaster George Friedman, author of ‘The Next 100 Years’, predicts that China will not overtake the US in terms of dominating international affairs. Although currently perceived as the nation most likely to...