- 1. Supply Chains Go for Risk Resilience
- (News)
- According to Forbes, supply chain trends are showing a turn towards risk resilience. Experts have released their latest supply chain trends, revealing an obsession with risk resilience, and who can blame ...
- 2. Preparing for Disruptions
- (News)
- ... have been blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic. And while it’s been the root of many problems that continue to affect the world at large, the less-considered culprit is climate change. Read it on Supply ...
- 3. Chip Shortage Still Wreaking Havoc on the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... it’s easy to blame the pandemic for the lack of groceries at your local supermarket, high car prices, and the inability to secure a PlayStation 5 gaming system – there are still other factors that contributed ...
- 4. Managing the supplier relationship makes business better
- (Retail)
- ... blame. Sometimes someone is actually at fault but it’s rarely intentional. Fanning the flames of blame only delay resolutions and put what was likely a good relationship into a downward spiral from which ...
- 5. Improve Your B2B On-Line Presence
- (News)
- If you, as a B2B company with a website you've investing a lot in building, happen to be underwhelmed with your ecommerce results, who gets the blame? Chances are, you'll need to spread the blame around ...
- 6. Big Data Fail?
- (News)
- As with any relatively new 'hot' technology, we've seen a few reports of unsuccessful Big Data projects. Is the problem on the implementation side, the tech side, or elsewhere?In an article on the ReadWrite ...
- 7. Don't Abuse Your Supplier
- (News)
- On the Spend Matters site, Thomas Kase questions why some companies insist on abusive behavior toward their suppliers. Isn't this counterproductive toward supply chain goals?Although Apple has a longstanding ...
- 8. Playing the Blame Game
- (News)
- Ever hear of the Swiss Cheese Model? Me neither.... but it seems to do a nice job explaining disruptions that can cripple supply chains.Steve Banker, in a short article on the Forbes site, opines that ...
- 9. Omnichannel Nirvana
- (Retail)
- ... can really be blamed. Consumers don't see the disjointed technology behind the retailer, and they don't care that it exists. The retail consumer expects to find the same products in the store, in a printed ...
- 10. Omnichannel - With Caution
- (Retail)
- ... who were assured that (despite their lack of planning and forethought) their packages would arrive on their doorsteps in time to wrap and give as presents the next day, had someone to blame - which I' ...
- 11. Holiday Delivery Issue Analysis
- (News)
- If you're one of the many on-line retail customers still steamed about a late delivery of holiday presents, you want to blame somebody. But who deserves your scorn? The store? UPS? FedEx?It's not an easy ...
- 12. Who's the Grinch
- (News)
- It hasn't been the best holiday seasons for shippers, that's for sure. A significant number of packages weren't delivered in their committed time frames, and guess who's getting blamed.In a Forbes article, ...
- 13. Pursuing Change
- (Management)
- ... as the two most often went hand-in-hand. Perhaps our DNA is to blame for associating “same” with safety and “change” with danger. Change is a hot topic for PMs right now. Agile takes a different look ...
- 14. Embrace Your Problems
- (Integration)
- ... are known and applied fairly. Focus on problem resolution, not blame. You need to get past the ‘let’s just fix it and go’ mentality that may work well short term, but which longer term hinders the ...
- 15. Manage Your Stakeholders & Manage Your Life
- (Management)
- ... thoughtful ingrates they are, gave you cleaning supplies. In their defense, “Didn’t you need a new mop?” Unmet expectations are the culprit of many disastrous events. And we only have ourselves to blame. ...
- 16. Let's Think About I
- (News)
- On the Enterprise Irregulars site, Phil Fersht laments the disintegration of the work ethic on the part of today's workers. He thinks we need to turn the tide and improve the analytical focus of our people. ...
- 17. Starting Procurement Fires
- (News)
- One of our favorites, Jason Busch from Spend Matters, has some ideas on how the procurement function can become a fire-starter, rather than spending its energy fighting flames. There are a number of steps ...
- 18. Lame or Lean?
- (News)
- "Lean as Misguidedly Executed", or L.A.M.E., is an apt description of how this continuous improvement methodology is sometimes implemented. In the Lean Journey blog, Tim McMahon takes us through the ...
- 19. What Does Sustainability Have to Do with You?
- (Management)
- ... are confident, self-assured, and have a clear perception of reality. Accepting. They accept themselves and others and are not looking to lay blame. Problem Solvers. They can focus on problems beyond ...
- 20. Why Are EDI Implementations So Tough?
- (EDI)
- ... complaints in this area revolved around the blame game: providers insisting the problem lay with the complainant rather than the provider's technology or policies. Third party use was cited as a problem ...
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