With newfound urgency, corporate leaders are challenging their heads of supply chain to come up with a roadmap for digital development. However, many are struggling to define what the journey toward digital excellence looks like to select the right approach.

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In this session, James covers this journey towards digital excellence and provides a strategic framework to design your digital roadmap for success.

Technology is a competitive advantage only when you make the right bets at the right time. But with so many emerging solutions, which should you invest in and when? Getting this wrong can have dire ramifications for the supply chain and the organisation overall. ​

 

In this session, James covers the emerging technology landscape and provides tactical tools organisations can use to explore tomorrows technology today.

Companies embracing ethical innovation will soon wield a powerful weapon to drive efficiencies, cement brand value and open up profitable new markets. CEO's are now tasking their heads of supply chain to design a roadmap that aligns with these targets.

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In this session, James covers aligning supply chain with corporate ESG goals, and provides a framework to create a tactical CSR strategy.

Innovation is now fundamental in modern supply chains, but for a function built on continuous improvement, it's a new concept. For many companies fostering innovation, developing core competencies and developing talent remains a challenge.

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In this session, James outlines the core elements to developing innovation. Talent competencies, organisational design and governance structures.

Building compelling business cases has long been a challenge for supply chain leaders when designing their strategies. With so many stakeholders to deal with (most with competing goals), crafting the right approach to gain buy-in can be difficult. 

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In this session, James covers evolving corporate agendas and provides and a key stakeholder value matrix for building out compelling value propositions.

Cross-functional integration is a critical component of supply chain efficiency and performance, yet over 80% of organisations still fail to achieve it. Most struggle to define a common vision and strategic approach to align different functional stakeholders.​

 

In this session, James covers the art and science behind cross-functional integration, providing frameworks you can use to align the various functions