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Our global networks are growing faster than our ability to control them. This is an alarming oversight. The good news is, board members and top executives have recognized this gap and are investing massively in building up network-savvy teams.”
— Prof. Dr. Christopher Jahns, President of the European Business School
International supply chains are currently experiencing a leadership gap: there are many networks, but only a few qualified supply (chain) managers, category managers, global sources and CPOs. Top-level companies are currently closing these gaps, giving them a significant competitive edge. If you want to position your company well in the global market, you need more than modern methods, you need qualified personnel.
Leadership-Development for Global Supply Networks
Creation of Corporate Supply Chain Universities
Training and Development Concepts from Siemens, Swisscom, Titan, US Postal, Lanxess et cetera
Development in Supply Chain Management shows how leading, international companies are training highly competent network managers.
Contents: Foreword • Foreword from the boardroom • Are your staff fit enough? • Ho ho ho, merry Christmas • Future skills • The black swan of the future • Purchasing and supply chain management have to leave the basement! • Purchasers need to transform into consultants • Cross-cultural competence • Multi-project management • Negotiating competence • Best-cost competence • Best Practice:Titan Industries Ltd • To lay golden eggs • The three day miracle • The school of ideas • Satisfied employees • Onwards and upwards • Meet Batman • The figures are doing the talking • The helmsman learns how to steer • The manager as a change agent • Best Practice: Deutsche Telekom • Moving on up • Traps and pitfalls • Category management • Simulating and Creating • The true chore • Unions vs globalization • The pay-off • Star Search? • What’s the most important thing? • The talent magnet • The manager’s magnet • Making the best of the good • Bad luck and breakdowns • Best Practice: Swisscom • Projects with appeal • More room for strategy’ • The hard skills • Soft skills • At the Academy • Have fun’ • Do you know Kermit? • It’s Fun Time! • Make it attractive, not descriptive • The fun paradox • The kilijoys • Simply Best Practice • Best Practice: Siemens • Back to the drawing board • Leadership skills in networks • Virtual teams • We can conquer the world’ • The Babel syndrome • Who’s in charge of the world? • Survival of the fittest • How to become Chinese • Globalization of the management board • Company Olympics • Best Practice: Deutsche Post DHL • Now you speak my language • English does not work • Trouble in the network • Network harmony • Welcome to the Radical Structuralism Club! • The secret of champions • The Buffett effect • The specificity of a winner • Money down the drain • Detective work • Not anyone can do it • Best Practice: United States Postal Services • Recruitment: Who wants to be a supply management professional? • Development: The Virtual Supply Chain Academy. • The internet doesn’t work! • Marketing can save the world • Retention: Rotating is remaining • Get a coach! • The way to success • Help! Here comes the coach! • The Americans have to do their own thing • Subject-specific coaching • When purchasing begins to think. • Sell yourself! • Total interdependency • The Midas touch of Best Practice: Value, not cost • Talking like Cicero • Keeping a sense of proportion • The bottom line • Tomorrow’s winners • The Love Lab • The Next Big Thing • Best Practice: Lanxess • Even angels have to start somewhere • The fitness program • The principles • What is really important • My own university! • Corporate Procurement University • Cargo cult management • A tough job • The fly in the ointment • A prophet has no honor in his own country • All countries in one boat • The same problems in every country • The tenacity of Best Practice • The executive’s best friend • The fall of Troy • Missed cues • The Nestor hotline • >Management team< is an oxymoron • Waltzing to the networks • Typical! • Nosce te ipsum • Know your enemy • Develop Leaders! • The globalization trap • The leadership crisis • The fuel of leaders • Born to lead • Where do leaders come from? • Leadership coaching • Wild, wild West • Black Bart Bolton • Risk! • Supply Chain Risk Management • Phantom of the workshop • Heads in the sand • The most important thing in the world • Jumping without a parachute • Aerial combat • A life in garbage • Management instead of communication • Firefighters in foreign countries • At the Edge of the Universe • Develop Leaders! • Acknowledgements • IndexISBN - 9788130921686
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Pages : 232
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