The Future of the Logistics' Last-Mile with Expert Guy Bloch

In this episode, we talk with logistics expert and Bringg CEO, Guy Bloch.  Guy walks us through the pandemic impact on supply chains, retailers and logistics systems.  We learn that during the pandemic supply chains and logistics systems were challenged globally as never before. 

As we all know, during the pandemic large numbers of people were isolated at home and online commerce exploded in popularity as did at-home deliveries of all kinds.  Retailers, restaurants and distributors scrambled to organize more efficient ways to get products delivered. 

Many of the new consumer behaviors that emerged during the pandemic are now becoming permanent, and businesses are rethinking, redesigning and re-prioritizing their logistics to address these changes. Listen in as we review the pandemic impact on logistics, and how these changes and emerging technologies like self-driving vehicles, robots and drones will likely shape the future of logistics' ecosystems.

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The Pandemic Impact on Procurement and Spend with SAP Expert Etosha Thurman

How has the global pandemic impacted procurement?  How long will the impact last?  What have we learned from this experience?  All of these questions and more are discussed in this important interview with Etosha Thurman, SAP's Chief Marketing & Solution Officer for Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP.

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Kevin Benedict

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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Digital Transformation Requires a Doctrine

Knights using Stirrups for Balance

In my 30+ years in the high tech industry I have often heard the business maxim, “Develop a business strategy first, and then find the technology to support it.” This teaching I have come to believe is wrong.

Let me support my argument by first asking a few questions.  What came first e-commerce or the Internet, mobile commerce or wireless networks, commercial airline travel or the airplane, knights in shiny armour being used as shock troops, or stirrups?  Answer: Stirrups of course!  Innovations and technology have a long history of appearing first, and then doctrines and strategies forming later.

What we are learning is if your outdated business doctrines and strategies are dictating the speed of your technology adoptions - you are in big trouble! The world is moving much too fast and organizations must now align the tempo of their business doctrine and strategy evolution with the pace of technology innovations and customer adoptions.

"Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never." -- Napoleon Bonaparte