Is your company extraordinary? If not, you can probably point to some that are. When you think about what makes them extraordinary, leadership probably comes to mind. In our most…
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Last week British supermarket chain Iceland announced it will remove palm oil from 130 of its own branded products by the end of this year, becoming the first U.K. retailer…
“In the future, there will be no female leaders.” Taken in isolation, this quote by Sheryl Sandberg from her bestselling book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead,…
Last year the Ellen MacArthur Foundation predicted that, by 2050, there will likely be more plastic in the sea than fish. In light of that alarming environmental warning, it’s good…
The “Women in Supply Chain” day at SCM World Live Americas has long been a popular forum to meet as a profession and discuss shared solutions to issues relating to…
As some companies struggle to build out roadmaps for digitizing their supply chains, an oft-cited challenge is how to experiment with new technologies—as part of a test and learn approach—while…
Judging by the just under 900 registrations we had for this week’s live webinar on the top supply chain breakthroughs of 2016, there is clearly a significant thirst for insights…
The circular economy is the concept of keeping resources in use for as long as possible through the recovery and re-use of product materials and related packaging, in order to…
Triggered on an international scale by the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the need to reduce carbon emissions has long been recognised at the political level. In early December this…
President Obama this week unveiled his administration’s Clean Power Plan, proposing state-level regulations and targets aimed at the coal-driven electricity sector. According to the United States Environment Protection Agency, the…
