NITL at the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit

(04 Jul 2012)

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Edward Sweeney of NITL recently contributed to the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit held in Singapore. This was the 5th in a series of biennial Summits that have spanned nearly a decade. The concept is the brainchild of Dr John Gattorna, acknowledged as one of the outstanding contemporary supply chain ‘thought leaders’.

Dr. Gattorna explained that the idea was “to bring together in one location the very finest thinkers and practitioners in the world of enterprise supply chains, to debate and discuss the big issues of the day”. The 2012 Summit was structured around ten panels, each focusing on a major topic of interest and concern to a wide business audience. John Gattorna explained that “panel participants were hand-picked to generate the high level of informed debate required in these events and that every person at the Summit was there by personal invitation - this was an event for the ‘best of the best’ in those businesses with global and regional supply chains”.

Edward Sweeney’s contribution was to Panel One of the Summit, the focus of which was “Design Thinking in Enterprise Supply Chains”. The other Panel members were: Don Hicks, President and CEO, LLamasoft Inc.; Howard Smith, Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain Operations, Ralph Lauren; Prof. Kees Dorst, Associate Dean, Research and Professor of Design, University of Technology Sydney; and, Andy Switky, Associate Partner, IDEO.


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                             Edward Sweeney Addresses the Global Supply Chain Summit in Singapore

Design thinking applied in the context of supply chains brings a new and creative edge to designing supply chain networks, visualising them as innovative and human-centred social networks – a far cry from the conventional mechanistic approach adopted by many contemporary enterprises. Top companies around the world are discovering that breakthrough supply chain performance is not achieved through “optimizing the plan”: it requires a fundamental rethink of the supply chain's design itself! These issues were the focus of the discussion of Panel One. 

View the Panel discussion here


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                               Summit Director, Dr. John Gattorna, Interviewed at Close of the Event

Summit Director, Dr. John Gattorna, thanked Edward Sweeney and other speakers and panellists for their contributions noting that the event had received “universally positive feedback from those who attended”. For further information about the event visit http://www.2012globalsupplychainbusinesssummit.com.

 

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