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Creating the Right Team Culture for Transparent Supply Chains: Storytelling as a Core Capability

NC State SCRC

Very few managers teach their direct reports how to do this, and it is certainly not taught in most university analytics and supply chain classes. But it is such an essential part of what is needed to manage in the digital economy. The essence of this involves an ability to tell ourselves a “story” around the data.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

NC State SCRC

Here are a few of the big stories that I wrote about this past year that I believe define some of the big shifts in the supply chain ecosystem we witnessed in 2017, and the predictions for 2018. Prediction: Real-Time LIVING Supply Chain Investments Will Separate the Winners from the Laggards.