The uncomfortable truth
What do you get when one of the world’s top journalists turns his critical eye to the field of supply chain management? For a start, you get a brilliant book. Peter Goodman's “How the World …
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Vulnerability of supply chains exposed in bestseller
The way we have organized our supply chains is an “epic failure”. The fatalities resulting from a shortage of life-saving gear during the COVID-19 pandemic have made this painfully clear. What possessed us to make …
Bram Desmet enriches supply chain model with sustainability and resilience
Supply chain guru Bram Desmet recently presented his new book ‘Rethinking Supply Chain’, in which he introduces models for a five-dimensional supply chain with which companies can make the ‘classic’ trade-off between service, cost and …
The Digital Transformation Roadmap
David Rogers is an international authority on digital transformation and affiliated with Columbia Business School in New York. He writes books, speaks at conferences and helps large companies implement their digital strategy. In 2016, he …
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Bestselling author David Rogers: Digital transformation is a matter of culture
To survive in the digital age, a company has to reinvent itself and create new business models all the time. For traditional companies, this is an immense task, but it can be done, according to …
A detailed look at the future of custobots
In the recently published book ‘When machines become customers’, the reader is sucked into a new world. Something big is about to happen: IoT-enabled devices that order their own spare parts and AI-equipped purchasing systems …
Purchasing robots will drive e-commerce into the background
Physical devices and AI systems that place their own orders are leading to a ‘megatrend that will have higher significance than digital commerce’, argues analyst firm Gartner in the book, ‘When machines become customers’. How …
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Yossi Sheffi: “People can interpret the context of events”
Four industrial revolutions have already hugely altered the role of humans within chains of production, and roles will once again change or disappear due to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The challenge is to make …
The ‘big reveal’ of The Magic Conveyor Belt
‘The Magic Conveyor Belt’ rewards those who stick with it. In effect, it is more like two books: an explanatory book and a visionary book. Anyone who gives up during the first part, thinking ‘I …
McKinsey exposed
Late last year, a remarkable book was published about the world of consulting. Generally speaking, consultants are expected to remain neutral and they learn how to psychologically arm themselves against clients who want to misuse …
