In a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article entitled, Mastering the Market Intelligence Challenge, many key points are made about the importance of multinational corporations using market intelligence when investing…
BCI Supply Chain Resilience Report 2016: The Cost of Disruption
The 8th annual Supply Chain Resilience Report, published by the Business Continuity Institute and supported by Zurich Insurance Group, tracks the origins, causes and consequences of supply chain disruption across industry sectors and regions…
Finding Inspiration In Non-Business Titles
It is common for entrepreneurs and business professionals to turn to books that are found in the business section of bookstores and libraries. However, there is a treasure trove of…
Spotlight on Fake News Highlights Need for Authoritative Sources and Triangulation
The 2016 presidential election has shed a spotlight on the emergence and subsequent impact of freely available false news stories on social media sites and the Internet. False news sites…
Supplier Sustainability: A Selected List of Resources
If you are in procurement, then you are well aware of the importance of sustainability when evaluating suppliers. Articles appearing in procurement and supply chain trade and professional literature have…
World Bank’s Doing Business 2017 Measures Regulations and Ranks Ease of Doing Business Across 190 Economies
Doing Business 2017 – the 14th annual report in the series – measures regulations that both enhance and constrain business activity across 190 economies—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—and over time. Doing Business…
Google Is Dividing Its Index Into Separate Mobile and Desktop Versions
This is big news. Business Insider’s Hannah Roberts reports that Google is splitting its index into separate mobile and desktop versions. Ms. Roberts writes: “Google regularly makes changes to its index,…
Business Professionals and Scholarly Literature
Carmen Nobel, recently writing for Forbes, zeroes in on a question that is worth asking: “Why don’t business professionals read academic business journals?” I guess it’s not fair to make…
Getting Off That Dead End Road
A big thank you to Amber Christian, Founder, ConsultAce, for writing an article entitled, Getting Off That Dead End Road, featuring my podcast, On the Road to Strategic Relevance. Here are her words about…
The Conference Board International Labor Comparisons
The International Labor Comparisons (ILC) program, formerly a division of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prepares economic indicators that are comparable across countries. Often statistics from different countries are…