In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guest Sarah Watt explore purpose-driven enterprises. Purpose-driven organizations create value not only for shareholders, but also for stakeholder groups — including customers, suppliers, local communities and employees.

Creating a purpose-driven enterprise is relatively new. Listen to a discussion about how CSCOs can take action to move on the continuum from being profit-centric to purpose-driven. The conversation provides real-world examples from Solvay and General Mills, then finishes up by providing five actions that supply chain leaders can take as they look to make their organizations more purpose-driven:

• Executive commitment: Integrate purpose into the supply chain strategy, decision-making processes and metrics.
• Portfolio management: Review the pipeline for unintended consequences and advise stakeholders on raw materials selection.
• Partner ecosystems: Identify opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
• Employee engagement: Provide employees with decision-making frameworks and build a culture in alignment with enterprise purpose.

Governance: Diversify metrics to go beyond financial performance and include other stakeholder groups.

In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guests Suzie Petrusic and Sarah Watt investigate the increasingly complex risk environment supply chains are operating within. They explore how most supply chain leaders are focusing on increased agility, resilience and visibility, while leaders are complementing these efforts with an approach that focuses on reducing the supply chain surface area. This concept translates to having less movement within the supply chain combined with a smaller overall footprint. 

The discussion provides real-world examples from Stanley Black & Decker as well as First Solar, before closing out by looking at the two key actions supply chain leaders need to take as they look to shape supply chain disruption in their organizations:

• Developing a disruption-shaping strategy and obtaining enterprise support for it
• Designing and maintaining a disruption-shaping supply chain

See Supply Chain Executive Report: Shaping Supply Chain Disruption in a New Era of Risk for deeper and additional insights into the topics discussed during this podcast.

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Run Time: 20:46 minutes

In this podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guest Tom Enright ask the question: Are we navigating a less global world? They explore, using real world examples, how the definition and concept of globalization is being rewritten while the formation of trading blocs and country alliances are forcing change within global supply chains. Reforming them into more purposeful, directional and geographically specific models. The discussion closes out by identifying four key actions that supply chain leaders need to take as they look to lead their organizations through a world that will continue to feel less global in how it trades, while achieving the goals of global growth.

Gartner clients can access the research report associated with this podcast at: https://www.gartner.com/document/4001081

In this podcast Thomas O’Connor and Ken Chadwick introduce the concept of the social supply chain, investigating how supply chain leadership architects and leads the supply chain community. They explore, using real world examples, why leaders need to be engaged with and enable their diverse community to work in more dynamic, collaborative ways such that they can drive rapid responses in an increasingly complex, ever-changing world. The discussion closes out by recommending five key actions supply chain leaders need to be taking as they look to break down silos and enable a more integrated and social supply chain organization.