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A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review cover posed the question: What’s the secret to winning in the global economy? The answer: Talent. Browse this issue archive.Need Help? Contact customer service 847-559-7581 More options
A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review cover posed the question: What’s the secret to winning in the global economy? The answer: Talent.
Without question, talent—or the lack thereof— was a leading theme at every session of every conference I attended this past year. I remember sitting through a compelling presentation on the Internet of Things and Big Data at APICS last fall. At the end, one of the attendees remarked that this was all well and good, but when it came to the skill set required to make IoT and Big Data a reality, her organization was like an empty stage. “I don’t know where I’d find them,” she added. If we’d been in church instead of a supply chain conference, you would’ve heard some “amens.” Given the changes taking place at the speed of business, finding talent is perhaps the most important challenge facing supply chain managers.
Talent is the theme for the July/August issue of Supply Chain Management Review. We lead off with the second in a series on the strategic supply chain co-authored by Michigan State’s Steven A. Melnyk. In this piece, Melnyk and Daniel J. Stanton write that the future of our profession is the customer-centric supply chain. That is one where cost-cutting is no longer job No. 1. Rather, running a supply chain aligned with your customers’ metrics is the goal. Making that shift will require a new kind of manager. In a similar vein, Accenture partner Michael A. Meyer explains why a continual focus on improving the current workforce and attracting new talent must be the new mandate for supply chain executives.
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July-August 2017
A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review cover posed the question: What’s the secret to winning in the global economy? The answer: Talent. Browse this issue archive. Access your online digital edition. Download a PDF file of the July-August 2017 issue.A few years ago, a Harvard Business Review cover posed the question: What's the secret to winning in the global economy? The answer: Talent.
Without question, talent—or the lack thereof— was a leading theme at every session of every conference I attended this past year. I remember sitting through a compelling presentation on the Internet of Things and Big Data at APICS last fall. At the end, one of the attendees remarked that this was all well and good, but when it came to the skill set required to make IoT and Big Data a reality, her organization was like an empty stage. “I don't know where I'd find them,” she added. If we'd been in church instead of a supply chain conference, you would've heard some “amens.” Given the changes taking place at the speed of business, finding talent is perhaps the most important challenge facing supply chain managers.
Talent is the theme for the July/August issue of Supply Chain Management Review. We lead off with the second in a series on the strategic supply chain co-authored by Michigan State's Steven A. Melnyk. In this piece, Melnyk and Daniel J. Stanton write that the future of our profession is the customer-centric supply chain. That is one where cost-cutting is no longer job No. 1. Rather, running a supply chain aligned with your customers' metrics is the goal. Making that shift will require a new kind of manager. In a similar vein, Accenture partner Michael A. Meyer explains why a continual focus on improving the current workforce and attracting new talent must be the new mandate for supply chain executives.
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