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Can Millennials Bridge the Supply Chain Talent Gap?
Recent surveys of supply chain executives have shown that attracting and retaining talent in the supply chain is a big concern, especially in light of the impending retirement of baby boomers who have long made up the bulk of supply chain professionals. Last week at the Supply Chain and Logistics…
Game-Changing Innovation at Caterpillar
On Wednesday, December 4, APQC and the Edison Awards will be hosting a Webinar presentation by Caterpillar Inc. on the development of an innovative product. Randy Peterson, advanced technology development manager for Caterpillar, will be discussing how the organization developed the game-changing…
Open Innovation: Findings from APQC’s Best Practices Study
This Tuesday, September 17, APQC and the Project Management Institute (PMI) will be hosting a Webinar on the findings from the recent best practices study Open Innovation: Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration. Marisa Brown and Andrea Stroud from APQC and Stephen Townsend and Chris Landes…
Successful Open Innovation Strategies and Leadership Engagement
Enthusiastic and engaged senior leaders can play a vital role in enabling a successful open innovation strategy. This is one of the key enablers for open innovation identified in APQC’s recent Best-Practices Report Open Innovation: Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration. Nearly all of the…
Supply Chain Management and Social Networking
Should social networking be implemented for the supply chain? That is a topic of interest to Adrian Gonzalez of Adelante SCM. He argues in a blog post on Logistics Viewpoints that social networking can be applied to the supply chain because it is “about facilitating people-to-people…
Talent Development for the Supply Chain
Recruiting high-potential supply chain professionals is of interest to many organizations. With supply chain becoming a more strategic function within the enterprise, organizations are seeking employees that can meet the demands of a complex, global economy. In a recent article in The Wall Street…
A Blueprint for Purchasing and Procurement Success
APQC has updated its popular report on procurement benchmarks and improved procurement processes. APQC’s Blueprint for Success: Procurement (Second Edition) now features new company examples and updated data on procurement performance metrics. Some of the measures highlighted in the report are…
Supply Chain Risk and Resiliency
Do you think that global supply chains are at greater risk of physical disruption today? APQC is currently conducting a survey to learn whether or not business executives believe this to be true and what their organizations are doing to address that risk. During the recession, many companies…
Cisco, Corning, BT Among Companies to Be Studied
APQC’s Best Practices Study, Open Innovation: Enhancing Idea Generation Through Collaboration, is rolling along, and we’re excited about this research. In late January our participating organizations selected the best-practice partners that we will study, and site visits will start this month.…
Supply Chain Disruption, Shingo Winners' Supply Chains, and More
APQC’s supply chain management and product development research agenda is expanding in 2013, and we want you to be involved. In this blog post I’ll give you a quick snapshot of our plans, give you a heads up on our next SCM Community Call, and highlight our Open Standards Benchmarking assessments…