This is a follow-up on my blog on the right brain chasm, which had a lot of traffic. Well, at least for my blog it had! I was also encouraged by an S&OP practitioner who told me that he was inspired by my lecture on this topic during a conference. I think I have to set something straight. Some of the comments on my blog … Continue reading Why S&OP needs the right brain
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
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
As media partner for the IE group, I didn’t need a lot more trigger to write a blog then the tag used for the October 2012 summit; ‘Advanced S&OP: Create True collaboration’. You can find my whitepaper on S&OP and collaboration here: SCT on S&OP and collaboration I’ve always been interested in collaborative processes like Collaborative Planning Forecasting & Replenishment (CPFR) and Sales and Operations … Continue reading S&OP and Collaboration
Hi there, my interpretation of the results of the third yearly S&OP pulse check is now available. A big thanks to 55 participants from 19 countries who took the effort to create insight. I will further use the insight from the 2012 S&OP pulse in combination with my article on S&OP that will be published in the Journal of Business Forecasting to create a document on … Continue reading S&OP pulse check 2012
Here we go again. Almost one and a half years after I wrote a blog saying that the difference between S&OP and IBP is an illusion, a hefty discussion on this topic started again on LinkedIn. This time it is getting a bit more dirty and personal, which seems to be driven from a deep down frustration and a drive to be right on an … Continue reading S&OP leaders, we just don’t get it!
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