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015: How to Deal with Resistance to Change | Featuring Megan Burns

Engaging Leader

Guest Megan Burns is a consultant, speaker, & managing director of Operations Strategy Consulting. She has more than 15 years of industrial engineering and supply chain management experience. Megan’s Webinar: How to Deal with Resistance to Change. ©iStockphoto.com/AnsonLu. Subscription Links.

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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here.

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Preparing for New Supply Chain in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

A new generation of technology -enhanced drugs and equipment will monitor and manage the care of these patients, changing the face of health care. In a recent webinar. Singh described the new health care reality and explored how every link of the industry's supply chain will be impacted.

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Is Your Supply Chain Flexible Enough to Meet Disaster?

Harvard Business Review

Countless companies have reconfigured their supply chains to reflect the latest strategy, only to discover that committing to these "best practices" exposed them to unexpected risks later. MIT Professor David Simchi-Levi says companies need find new ways of managing their supply chains by using a segmentation strategy.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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6 Tips for Making Your Warehouse Profitable

Strategy Driven

Are returns efficiently tracked and managed? Many technology companies offer webinars and training materials that are targeted to help workers use their products more effectively. Is it easy to pull up a report on KPIs, including historical performance data? Is data accessible in real time as orders flow through the system?

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. Today, greater access to information makes the management of end-to-end processes easier, especially those that cut across organizational boundaries. But improvement has improved. I see three forces behind this trend: 1. Greater information availability.