Well, last week I complained that we hadn’t received any snow yet this winter, and this morning I woke up to about an inch of snow on the ground, with more snow forecast for tomorrow. Today, I am lamenting the fact that in all of my adult years, I have yet to win the lottery. Just saying.
As expected, this week’s news was dominated by retail-related items.
Two weeks ago, I shared my key takeaways from a workshop I conducted on the role of social media in supply chain management (see “Supply Chain Executives Define Social Media Too Narrowly”). I made the case that supply chain executives need to think beyond Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, and that they need to “focus on the work, not the words”–i.e., think through the work they need to get done… Continue reading
I spent part of this week in Arizona, where I managed to spend some time hiking through the desert. Then I came home to find a mountain of leaves in my yard. And so the raking season begins. But first, this week’s news.
In the early 1990s, many companies were concerned about allowing employees to use the Internet and the World Wide Web. The fear was that productivity would go down because everyone would be surfing web sites all day, especially inappropriate ones, instead of working. Looking back on this, it is clear that companies were shortsighted, unable to fully recognize how the Internet and Web would ultimately transform the way we live… Continue reading
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Viewpoints on the Air Podcast #3: Going Global–Driving Forces and Success Factors
Jordan Kass, Executive Director for TMC, CH Robinson Worldwide
In this latest episode of Viewpoints on the Air, I talk to Jordan Kass, Executive Director for TMC at CH Robinson Worldwide, about the factors that are driving companies to expand their global presence and operations, as well as the implications of going global… Continue reading
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