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How to Use the Latest Methods to Benefit All Stakeholders of The Company

Joseph Lalonde

For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. For employees, automotive logistics can help them develop new skill sets by keeping them up-to-date with the latest technologies available for transportation management services. This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com.

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EMERGENCE – What is Now Needed for Leadership Teams to Become High Performance Teams

Strategy Driven

The creature is covered in wretched mud, dripping stinky black slime, standing on the bank gazing outward. There was getting and managing PPP. Like the creatures at the beginning of the article they are standing on the bank looking outward. What is our policy regarding the vaccine….do That is how I feel.

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China’s Slowdown: The First Stage of the Bullwhip Effect

Harvard Business Review

For the last two months, global supply chains have been experiencing the first stage of a bullwhip effect triggered by uncertainties about the severity of China’s economic slowdown. In the context of a normal economy with modest demand volatility, the bullwhip effect causes volatility to vary across the tiers of a supply chain.

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Rethink Your Business Continuity Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Amadeo Giannini , the founder of Bank of America, rescued all funds from his bank after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Other banks were in smoldering ruins and unable to operate. The earthquakes in Japan disrupted supply chains and challenged the just-in-time (JIT) management model that has gained popularity.

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Three Questions You Should Ask About Your Cyber-Security

Harvard Business Review

These attacks are increasing in number, even as companies increase investments in security technologies, improve their capabilities, and tighten policies. You can make customers provide more rigorous authentication before they make a transaction, or have managers limit distribution of sensitive plans.

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To Prevent Another Rana Plaza, Build Better Societies, Not Just Better Factories

Harvard Business Review

The tragedy is that countless people died even though both workers and management knew something was wrong. A World Bank study tells us that the cost of land in Dhaka, where hundreds of thousands of garment workers live, is comparable to suburban New York. Yet companies apply the same supply chain labor policies in both countries.

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The 4 Types of Small Businesses, and Why Each One Matters

Harvard Business Review

A blanket policy that just tries to create another Silicon Valley can turn out to be a disaster. But these Main Street businesses employ a lot of Americans –as many as 57 million– and the policies they need are not the same as the ones required by startups. Most of these small businesses don’t actually have employees.