Change Management

A Harvard Business Review Article references a 10 year study that discusses the four (4) behaviours that make for a World Class CEO: Decide with Confidence and Speed Be Relationship Masters Be Proactive in Adapting to Change Practice Relentless Consistency The article resonated with me as it made me think of how I’ve applied (or not) these behaviours to Projects I’ve worked on and how these four powerful traits can apply to Life...

Information Technology is now a core part of a forward minded and flexible company, as advances in technology have increased at an unforeseen rate in the last few years. In my last article, I described Industry 4.0 and how Cyber Systems, Internet of things (IoT), and cloud computing are driving the collaboration of workers, work machines, and IT. Let’s take a simple look at Digital Transformation and the customer experience. Not too...

I went to SAP and met with their S/4HANA and Fiori experts this week to learn about how SAP will be radically changing in the future. This included a discussion on their brand new data story product Lumira as well. Here is a brief summary of what to expect for SAP Supply Chain Planning in the future. You had better get prepared. 1. S/4HANA with Fiori is a robust and fast SAP Decision Support System now more than anything else. The...

When I took a Dale Carnegie course on public speaking we had to give 3 small speeches a night. There was a formula to follow, but there were no note cards or Power Point slides, just your memory and the formula to make it more compelling. If that was not fear inducing enough, during one class we had to re-enact old television commercials and perform like crazy cheetahs or baboons. It was embarrassing and humiliating at the same time....

I’ve worked on many major projects and here are the best lessons learned. Don’t budget so many projects in the New Year that you can’t deliver them. I worked at one pharmaceutical company and there were a limited amount of projects driven by a Project Officer and designed to fit the team’s work throughout the year. One project focused on streamlining the SAP Planning and Procurement exception messages. This one project contributed to...

Gartner votes Apple as the top supply chain for 2013. Steve Jobs and Tim Cook both oversaw Apples Supply Chain. “When Cook took over the supply chain, he cut the number of component suppliers from 100 to 24, in a move to force the companies to compete for Apple’s business. Cook then shut down 10 of the 19 company warehouses to limit overstocking, and by September 1998 inventory was down from a month to only six days” Your...