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Book Review: Fundamentals of Risk Management (5th Ed.)

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“When considering any contribution that risk management can make to the organization, it is important to decide whether the contribution will relate to strategy, projects and/or operations. The decisi...
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Transcript: Radical Business Model Transformation with Dr. Carsten Linz

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This content is also available as a podcast on BMP Radio. Kelly: Hello, and thank you for joining us today. This is Kelly Barner, Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point. Today I welcome Dr. Carsten...
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Guest — Asif Khan
Hi Kelly, Great Blog Post. Without writing a longer message (which I am certainly tempted to do) explaining my organisation's bus... Read More
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Book Review: Building Digital Culture

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“This should be a very sobering thought for anyone in business. The company that you toil and work so hard to make succeed is statistically unlikely to exist in a decade.” (p. 5) Building Digital Cult...
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Book Review: Radical Business Model Transformation

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“Companies that dominated the national market for decades are suddenly confronted with new competitors that are redefining entire industries and hence restricting the incumbents’ strategic freedom to ...
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Guest — Carsten Linz
Dear Kelly, thanks for this insightful review of OUR book! Still too many companies focus on efficiency gains and automation and... Read More
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Guest — Kelly Barner
Well put Dr. Linz - and thank you for sharing your comments here. One of the other points that comes to mind - a dynamic that clea... Read More
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Book Review: A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains

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In reading A Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains: Repair, remake, redesign, rethink by Catherine Weetman, I was reminded the importance of people taking completely different ...
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Book Review: Introduction to Global Logistics, 2nd Ed.

Kelly Barner
 If you feel surprised that you missed the first edition of Introduction to Global Logistics: Delivering the Goods 2nd Ed., by John Manners-Bell, you’re not alone. I was puzzled by the same thing...
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Book review: Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians

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“The essence of supply chains is to match supply and demand. But what happens with supply chains and, particularly, what can supply chain performance be, in the context where the demand is neither dic...
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Book Review: The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit 2nd Ed

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The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit by Gwynne Richards and Susan Grinsted is an instructional book based in reality, free from assumptions and pretense but full of real world applications. The tool...
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Book Review: e-Logistics: Managing Your Digital Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage

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“In other words, an effective management of a firm’s digital supply chain will have a positive impact on productivity and growth; ignorance will very likely result in the loss of competitive advantage...
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Book Review: Aviation Logistics

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“The benefits of the global connectivity achieved by both ocean and air transport reach practically every type of modern industry and business and are an essential ingredient of the global supply chai...
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A Personal Look at the Resiliency of Tesco and Their Supply Chain

Kelly Barner
I recently had the opportunity to interview Robert Mason and Barry Evans, co-authors of the book ‘The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco.’ It was published in September 2015 and you ca...
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Book Review: Fashion Logistics: Insights into the Fashion Retail Supply Chain

Kelly Barner
I went into my review of Fashion Logistics: Insights into the Fashion Retail Supply Chain by John Fernie and David Grant (Kogan Page, November 2015) with pragmatic acceptance of the fact that it would...
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Being a leader doesn't mean everything comes easy - it means not expecting them to be easy

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I recently interviewed Magnus Carlsson, the author of Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA. You can listen to our conversation on demand on BMP Radio. Although the book ...
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Conversation with the Author: Jonathan O'Brien on Why His Revised Editions Add but Don't Remove Information

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Jonathan O’Brien, CEO at Positive Purchasing, has written a number of weighty books for procurement and supply chain professionals: Category Management in Purchasing, Negotiating for Purchasing Profes...
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Book Review: The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco

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The supply chain may be the best organized in the world, but if trust and transparency are not there the commercial results will not materialize. - The Lean Supply Chain, p. xxiv The Lean Supply ...
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Book Review: Category Management in Purchasing (3rd Edition)

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Just over 18 months ago I reviewed the second edition of Category Management in Purchasing by Jonathan O’Brien. (You can read my original review here). When I recently learned there was to be a third ...
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Book Review: Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA

Kelly Barner
 Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA by Magnus Carlsson (KoganPage, August 2015) is not a case study, although I didn’t need the note from the author in the introd...
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Book Review: Inventory Management: Advanced Methods for Managing Inventory within Business Systems

Kelly Barner
It is very important for businesses to be able to react to changes in the marketplace within their supply chains. This is possible where: there is a desire to make changes; there are clear market sign...
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Book Review: Supply Chain Management & Logistics in Construction

Kelly Barner
Done well, the use of supply chain companies brings technical superiority and innovation to the project, and their specialist knowledge and experience brings enhanced efficiency, quality and consisten...
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Book Review: Global Supply Chain Ecosystems

Kelly Barner
…today’s supply chains encompass complex webs of interdependencies, frequently spanning the globe, designed and deployed to optimize critical attributes – such as speed, agility, and resilience – that...
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