The tragic events in Algeria last week have only emphasised the political instability in that part of the world. But even before that, trade and logistics professionals were pessimistic about the near-term prospects of Arab Spring countries
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One of the bitter ironies of rapid IT development is the fact that the early adopters are, at some point, going to end up with the oldest technology, apparently putting them at a competitive disadvantage
The shift in shopping from the high street to online is highlighted in the Christmas figures from retailers and analysts and has put the focus firmly on delivery quality with one UK newspaper suggesting that 225,000 parcels a day failed to arrive as promi
The hazards of trying to manage a long complex supply chain are nowhere better illustrated than by the tragic case of a factory fire in Bangladesh last month which killed more than 100 garment workers
If you thought you were doing well on collaboration, think again. We have now entered the age of extreme collaboration
Yesterday, “cyber Monday”, UK shoppers were expected to spend £550 million online, according to Experian
Sitting in an office in western Europe it is all too easy to be drawn into a stereotypical view of how global supply chains work – with the focus firmly on the links between Europe, North America and China…
Most UK organisation are adopting short term tactics in the hope of keeping their supply chains ticking over – and only a minority are fully reorganising business operations to ensure that they are able to cope with volatile levels of demand
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance,” says Orson Welles in The Third Man. “In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of dem
Let’s, for one moment, leave aside the row over the £80m EU loan to Ford to boost Transit production in non-EU Turkey – while it closes its Southampton plant. It’s an embarrassment for chancellor George Osborne, but
