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Business Leaders Involved with Environmental Sustainability Initiatives Provide Sentiment on Current State

Business Leaders Involved with Environmental Sustainability Initiatives Provide Sentiment on Current State

The inaugural edition of the Honeywell Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) introduces the Sentiment Index, which is “a global sampling of over 600 business leaders directly involved in their organization’s environmental…

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What’s New in the Beginning of 2022: Recently Announced Supply Chain Related Intelligence Offerings

What’s New in the Beginning of 2022: Recently Announced Supply Chain Related Intelligence Offerings

In less than four weeks into the new year there are already interesting supply chain related intelligence new launches and offering updates to note: Making a big splash and receiving…

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This is Worthy to Note: Google Cloud Announces Launch of Supply Chain Twin

This is Worthy to Note: Google Cloud Announces Launch of Supply Chain Twin

Last week, Google Cloud announced the launch of Supply Chain Twin, a solution that lets companies build a virtual representation, a digital twin, of their physical supply chain. Data from…

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IRI Acquires Supply Chain Analytics Provider RSi

IRI Acquires Supply Chain Analytics Provider RSi

On October 8, 2020, IRI, a global research and services firm for consumer, CPG, retail and media companies, announced it has acquired Retail Solutions, Inc. (RSi), a provider of supply…

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Everest Group’s COVID-19 Dynamic Tracker Shows How COVID-19 is Affecting Leading Offshore and Nearshore Locations

Everest Group’s COVID-19 Dynamic Tracker Shows How COVID-19 is Affecting Leading Offshore and Nearshore Locations

Everest Group has developed a dynamic tracker tool that tracks COVID-19 exposure among leading IT and BPO delivery locations to help organizations evaluate options to diversify their operational risk. According…

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Connecting the Dots Between Innovation Measurement, Competitive Intelligence, and Supplier and Location Discovery

Innovation discovery plays an important role in supplier and market research. Optimal supply market research involves including a competitor-focused component, also known as competitive intelligence. Without this component, a holistic…

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Explore Transformation with the Multidimensional ISG Digital Cube

Early this summer technology research and advisory firm, ISG, introduced the ISG Digital Cube, a virtual, interactive model of enterprise capabilities organizations must have for digital transformation. The ISG Digital…

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The Smart Cube Launches Smart Risk, a Supply Chain Risk Monitoring Solution

Research and analytics solutions provider, The Smart Cube, announced today that it is launching Smart Risk, a bespoke, real-time supply chain risk monitoring solution. According to the press release: For Category…

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Reshoring Initiative Data Report 2016 is Released

The Reshoring Initiative has released its 2016 Data Report and “for the first time in decades, more manufacturing jobs are returning to the United States than are going offshore. The…

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New Year, New Additions to Supply Market Intelligence Index Collection!

New Year, New Additions to Supply Market Intelligence Index Collection!

The Supply Market Intelligence Index collection continues to be curated as new, and not so new, indices are discovered. Here are recent additions, all open access: Country and Geopolitical Risk…

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