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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

The solution solved a relevant industry issue. In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. Transora had a short history. Clear governance.

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What Remains the Same?

Supply Chain Shaman

My goal in this blog post is to answer a series of questions I got from the audience when I spoke at a couple of conferences this week. Through digital marketing, small brands are cropping up all over, and it is sentiment analysis and digital content driving purchases. A strong center of excellence tied to network design is essential.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my role as an industry analyst, I have been lucky to attend many great conferences and hear wonderful speakers. One of my favorite speeches, over this fifteen year tenure, was listening to Alan Greenspan at the AMR Research IT conference in November 2006. Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. Reflections.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

(I sometimes wonder if I should create a new class of technologies for the network design tools because they have changed so much.) These tools allow us to look at sell, source, make, and deliver together. Next week I will be speaking at the Llamasoft Summercon conference (follow this link to see the slides). Is it coincidence?