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When You’re Tied Up In Supply Chains, You Need A Strategy

Strategy Driven

In short, it’s an enormous business, consuming some 6 percent of total world GDP, more than military spending and education combined. According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year.

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Scotland’s Future Is Bright; the UK’s Might Not Be

Harvard Business Review

There is clearly something to this; while declines in manufacturing employment have hit the Scottish economy hard, manufacturing has also been in decline as a share of GDP across the advanced economies over the past 25 years. Gordon Brown said during the campaign that Scotland’s fight should not be with London but with globalization.