As a follow up from my last blog on the right brain chasm in supply chain and S&OP, you can find here my presentation on Changing & sustaining S&OP from the March 2013 Australian S&OP conference. A quick guide to go with this presentation. The biggest change required for proper S&OP or in general for agile decision making is horizontal thinking. Information never sits in one function, … Continue reading Leading in changing and sustaining S&OP
Earlier this year I spoke at the Australian S&OP forum 2013. On the first day of this event, Oliver Wight spoke on the evolution of S&OP and they discussed the ‘chasm’ in S&OP. The term ‘the chasm’ comes from the book ‘Crossing the chasm’ by Geoffrey Moore. Moore used the chasm to describe the difficulty in a (product) lifecycle go from early adopters or visionaries … Continue reading The right brain chasm in supply chain and S&OP
This blog was recently published in the FPA_March2013 newsletter A recently released white paper from the Association for Finance Professionals (AFP) shows that amongst other things, it is extremely important for finance professionals to have advanced excel skills and the ability to validate data. I couldn’t agree more. Advanced Excel knowledge is a must for every finance professional. Even in businesses with advanced IT environments and with … Continue reading Think beyond the spread sheet!
Hi all, as promised in my December blog find my presentation on leading sustainable S&OP here! Sustainable S&OP can only be established when an S&OP culture is created. To create an S&OP culture, effective S&OP behaviours like discipline, common goals, trust, communication and collaboration need to become part of a company DNA. This presentation links some literature on this behaviour with results from my S&OP pulse … Continue reading Leading sustainable S&OP
Hi all, find here my article that was published in the 2012 fall edition of the Journal of Business forecasting. Choose a rainy day to read it as it is pretty long! Enjoy and I’m interested in your thoughts and feedback Global S&OP Leadership, Change, Behavior and cross-cultural differences cheers, Niels Continue reading Global S&OP, leadership, behaviours & culture
It must be one of the longest article titles in the history of the Journal of Business Forecasting but I’m pleased that my article has finally been published. It is even the leading article, lucky me. The article is actually a combination of 4 blogs I wrote about 1.5 years ago on the impact of company culture on S&OP. You can find those here I first wrote … Continue reading Global S&OP: Leadership, Change management, Behavior & Cross-Cultural Differences
It has been a while that I wrote a blog. I’ve not read a lot of interesting articles, blogs or tweets on supply chain to get any inspiration. It seems more of the same. Usually when I go for a run or take the bicycle along the bay of Melbourne to work I think about topics to write. Lately I’ve been using that time to … Continue reading Supply Chain and S&OP left brainers
My last blog, the-power-of-social was a comment on Lora Cerere’s blog on social in the supply chain. In the comments Lora mentioned; ‘so though for an organization to listen. It’s just not in their DNA. What do you think that it takes to make this shift?’ The answer I believe is refreshingly simple; make it part of the company DNA! Or in other words, make … Continue reading Unlocking the power of social
A couple of weeks ago I caught up with Lora Cecere, a well-respected and knowledgeable supply chain analyst who was over in Melbourne for a conference. I tweeted a; ‘welcome to Melbourne’ to her and so it came that a couple of days later we had lunch together. I have a passion for creating and sharing (supply chain) knowledge so I respect what she is … Continue reading The power of social
If you have been following my blog for a while now, you might have picked up that I like the change management author Rick Maurer. He writes in a simplistic and humoristic way about the sometimes serious topic of change. I’ve used his 3 level resistance model from his book ‘Beyond the wall of resistance’ to map key stakeholders up to the most senior level … Continue reading A humble change lesson
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