APICS Sacramento June 20, 2006 Dinner Meeting
APICS Sacramento June 20, 2006 Dinner Meeting
About the Presentation
Being There
“The New Face of Supply Chain Management – The Mindset and the Skills You Will Need to Survive”
Peter Sellers as Chance The Gardner in his last film, "Being There" - 1979
Jim Reeds, M.S., C.P.M., CPCM, CFPIM, CIRM
President, Learning Solutions International
Director of Educational Development, eParagon
Adjunct Faculty, San Jose State University
Research Associate, Henley Management College
Recent changes in the working environment of the modern Supply Chain Management Professional has been described as something akin to the Peter Sellers Character, Chance the Gardiner in the 1979 film, “Being There.” Chance the long suffering servant to a rich master has lived a sheltered life within his master’s estate for some forty years. Upon the death of his master, he finds himself on his own in an unfamiliar, modern-day urban setting. Bewildered and confused, Chance is amazed at the changes in his surroundings that have occurred during his dutiful service to his late master. He finds himself lost and slightly confused by it all.
Well, there may be a little exaggeration here – but not much. While you have been going about the daily work of your busy career in Supply Chain Management, the world has changed. There are many terms that are new and unfamiliar. The skill set that you have carefully built over the length of your carrer may no longer serve you so well. If you are thinking of a job change, you may discover that your experience alone is deemed “out of date” or even “irrelevant.” Looking forward, What to do?
This presentation offers a few prescriptions – or at least a new “compass” with which to navigate your way through the terrain of what some have termed, “The New Face of Supply Chain Management.”
Some of the points presented:
You and ‘Chance the Gardiner’
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