I was delighted to hear from Matt Wallace, Project DXM‘s CEO, that the company had been named to the WEF’s list of Technology Pioneers – growth-stage companies from around the world that are using new technologies and innovation poised to significantly impact business and society. For several years, NC State students and faculty have been
Price analysis is a subject that is often overlooked in supply chain education, (although it is certainly a big part of our chapter on Strategic Cost Management in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management). This is perhaps a “forgotten art” that was revisited by one of our student teams that worked with the American Red Cross
A small group of executives enjoyed a particularly interesting set of insights yesterday at our first Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting since December, 2019. Meeting on a rainy day at the NC State Faculty Club, we enjoyed some great opinions and discussions from three very different perspectives. But as one person who attended noted, “After
A recent set of investigations by the Economist provides a realistic view of the likelihood of a smooth transition to a green energy economy. Big Picture Up Front: it won’t be easy, and many of the current projections we are hearing about likely won’t be possible. Environmentalists and automotive companies have committed to converting all
The last time I wrote a report on pandemic planning for the IBM Business of Government was in 2010 – shortly after the H1N1 pandemic. In this report, I wrote about the critical need for our country to prepare – indeed the title of the report was “Planning for the Inevitable: The Role of the