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Overcoming supply chain complexities for advantage

Lead Change Blog

Co-hosts Steven Bowen, author & CEO at Maine Pointe, and Mike Burnette, MD, Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI), University of Tennessee, will discuss the latest research into corporate supply chain challenges. The post Overcoming supply chain complexities for advantage appeared first on Lead Change.

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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. Resources Mentioned in This Episode.

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Updates from the CMI Sri Lanka Board

Chartered Management Institute

Watch the full webinar here: New President elected At the recent CMI Sri Lanka AGM, a new President was elected – Professor Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI. You can watch the webinar here. Thesara Jayawardane CMgr FCMI, Graeme La Brooy FCMI and Niroshan Peiris MCMI. COVID-19 has changed this perspective completely.

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Preparing for New Supply Chain in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Professor Mahender Singh, research director of the MIT Supply Chain 2020 project, says our current health care system is not designed for the profoundly altered demand patterns that are expected and supply chains will have to be reinvented. In a recent webinar.

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Change in the Supply Chain: High Tech's New Growth in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

High tech companies operate in a complex supply chain environment where rapid product life cycles and narrow margins put constant pressure on market share and financial performance. According to a new survey of high tech manufacturers, the export picture is brightening in emerging nations.

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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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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in.