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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. Last night, I spoke at a conference on the use of advanced analytic techniques and the future of planning.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

They call for a reinvention of traditional IBP that more fully integrates its governing meetings and reporting into operations, enabling faster decision making, better responsiveness to disruption, and liberation for planners to work on more strategic issues. Figure 1 is an image from the cover of the book. KEY POINTS.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 17 2023

Supply Chain Matters

According to the SAP announcement , at a purchase price of $18.15 Hasso Plattner who co-founded SAP in 1972, stepped down from his CEO leadership role in 2003. in cash per share, the transaction corresponds to a Qualtrics equity value of approximately $12.5 SAP’s stake will be acquired for approximately $7.7

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

The Suez Canal Company's shares were purchased by Great Britain in 1874, making it the sole owner. Due to the extra time required to wait for a transit slot when there are no bookings, the trip takes an average of 35 hours. New age of European dominance in Pacific Asia began with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869.

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A Brief Look Back at Clayton Christensen’s Innovative Ideas

Enterra Insights

The Economist notes, “The book, published in 1997, popularized the idea of disruptive innovation. The premise of Christensen’s groundbreaking book was that many companies’ hubris causes them to ignore disruptive innovations that can eventually lead to their downfall. They add, “This is a book about progress.