Change is never easy and putting together a successful change management strategy can be even more difficult. Come to think of it, the concept itself seems an oxymoron—how do you manage change management? Barbara Munyan Ardell, VP at Paladin Associates, Inc., underscored the sheer difficulty of organizational change efforts in a post for Checkmate Blog: “Research actually shows […]
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To Start 2014, Pick Three People and Three Books
As I thought about what to write about in my first blog of 2014 I kept coming back to something that the insightful Seth Godin wrote about last month. In a December 20th post, he suggested that if there is “one thing you could do that would transform how 2014 goes for you,” it would […]
Supply Chain Brain — December 2013
Dell, GENCO Take the Plunge Into Vested Outsourcing Article by Robert J. Bowman published on December 20, 2013 Trust and a sharing of risk and reward are the hallmarks of an outsourcing agreement that took the two companies beyond the concept of “price per activity,” to one that strives for mutual profitability and enhanced customer […]
GENCO Joins the Ranks of Vested Award-Winning Companies
If necessity is the mother of invention, transformation may well be the big daddy of re-invention. That’s perhaps what Dell and GENCO thought as they held a Global Outlet Partnership Summit in Fort Worth, TX in 2011. The purpose of the summit was to restructure and align their outsourcing agreement to move from a traditional […]
Logistics Quarterly — November 2013
GENCO Receives Logistic Quarterly’s Best Third-party Logistics (3PL) Sustainability Award for Groundbreaking Vested Outsourcing Project with Major Computer Manufacturing Customer A PRNewswire release issued by GENCO on October 6, 2013. Project achieved 50 percent reduction in scrap, 40 percent reduction in transformation costs, and a major reduction in on-hand inventory dollars
Innovate Your Innovation Strategy (Part II)
Last time, I talked about the need for collaborative innovation in strategic relationships that emerges from both inside and outside companies. At Procter & Gamble innovation has always been a prime imperative. That focus intensified in 2000, when A.G. Lafley took the helm as P&G’s CEO. He set out to reinvent the company’s innovation business […]
