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Supply Chain Management Review Keynote Session: Supply Chains for the Information Age: Mastering Uncertainty and Change.
Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, Co.), December, 2006
By Bridget McCrea
No one likes change. In fact, it's human nature to resist it and to try to keep things as routine as possible. It may sound good in theory, but it rarely works that way in the supply chain environment, where change is the name of the game.
So rather than resist it, why not embrace uncertainty and turn it into a competitive advantage? That's what M. Eric Johnson, Director of the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, asked in this i2 Technologies-sponsored keynote session, which opened the Supply Chain Management Review track of the 2006 Global Supply Chain Conference.
Johnson presented his vision of the future and discussed what companies--and the supply chain professionals in...
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