Breaking News: UK Stumbles Back Into Recession
Reporting for Reuters News Service, David Milliken and Fiona Shaikh this morning confirmed the bad news for the British economy, and for the governing coalition led by Prime Minister David Cameron: it...
View ArticleThe New Manufacturing Frontier: Incredible Materials, Awesome Innovation
Rolls Royce. The name just oozes with quality, style, and superb engineering. The closest that most of us get to a Rolls Royce emblem is while we are sitting in an airplane. As we look out the window,...
View ArticleThe Olympic Games: A Logistics Challenge of Herculean Proportion
It seems that the Olympic Games is an event that people love to hate. The scope of the Games makes it one of the most far-reaching and complex initiatives in modern times. The breadth of its influence...
View ArticleWarehouse Management Systems: It Ain’t Your Grandaddy’s Stock Room Anymore!
Warehousing has become more than a discipline. It is now a science. And it might even be called a “sexy science!” The warehouse has been the perfect target for technological innovations and...
View ArticleD Day Remembered: The Logistics of an Invasion
Good logistics alone can’t win a war. Bad logistics alone can lose it. —General Brehon B. Somervell Commanding General Army Services Forces, 1942 This morning, June 3, 2012, I attended a Memorial...
View ArticleOlympic Games 2012 Pose Logistics Challenges
For businesses in London and throughout the United Kingdom, the Olympic Games promises to bring a bonanza of commercial activity that has never been enjoyed on the British Isles. The eyes of the world...
View ArticleOlympic Games and Supply Chain Risk: UK Mid-Sized Businesses Poorly Prepared
You can lead an equestrian to water, but you can’t make it drink. In spite of continued warnings over the past three or four years, many medium-sized businesses in the UK seem ill-prepared to deal with...
View ArticleThe Olympians: Five Great Lessons on Business Leadership
High performance athletes can teach us a great deal about what it takes to succeed in life, and in business. Two weeks ago, I attended a reunion at my former rowing club in Mississauga, Canada. I...
View ArticleChild Labour: Poison to the Ethical Supply Chain
For children, school is the best place to work. According to the International Labour Organisation, there are over 215 million children working across the world and of these 115 million are thought to...
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