IBP, Leadership, S&OP 13 Apr 2016 Leadership in forecasting is more important than ‘Big Data’ or the tools you use At every conference I attend there is a discussion about forecasting, usually centred on either the need to incorporate 'Big… Duncan
Decision-making, IBP, Leadership, Optimisation, S&OP, SIOP 16 Dec 2015 Drowning In Data? Do Executive Management Teams Get The Information They Need To Make Good Decisions From Their S&OP Processes? Maybe it’s because… Duncan
Change, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy 31 May 2012 Nuclear Incidents, Plane Crashes and Failed Strategies Failed strategies, like nuclear incidents and plane crashes, only rarely occur due to one catastrophic exogenous shock. These disasters, along… Chris
Decision-making, IBP, Innovation, Leadership, Other Stuff, S&OP 17 May 2012 The Future of S&OP? IBF/APICS BotB Conference Panel What will it look like? How will it work? Why does it need to change? ... I’ve just been in… Chris
Featured, Ideal World, Laws & Principles, Leadership, Slider, Strategy 22 Sep 2011 A Liberating Structure… Do you have a strategy? And what are your chances of executing it? Is it based on penetrating insights and… Chris 4 Comments
Change, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy 05 Aug 2011 Putting the ‘T’ into Leadership No, it’s not an example of our bad spelling; it’s a way of overcoming ‘silo thinking’ and looking at a… Chris 1 Comment
Decision-making, Innovation, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy 30 Jun 2011 Asking the Right Questions We want answers! We want accurate forecasts; we want to know the specific, measurable, actions that will give us the… Chris 4 Comments
Change, Ideal World, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy 31 May 2011 The ‘Gap’ – Excuses or Creative Tension? ‘Mind the gap’ is a phrase that will be familiar to passengers of subway systems the world over. While… Chris 3 Comments
Change, Ideal World, Innovation, Laws & Principles, Leadership, StrataBridge, Strategy 21 May 2011 The Transformation Roller Coaster – Grandma’s Advice Grandma is on to something. Despite the rhetoric – annual reports, internal pronouncements and management fads awash with the platitudes… Chris
Decision-making, IBP, Leadership, Other Stuff, S&OP, StrataBridge 20 May 2011 In-House, Big Consultants or a Boutique Firm? At the inaugural IBF London meet-up on Tuesday (www.ibf.org) to hear an interesting presentation from the Business Integration Manager at… Duncan
