Living Supply Chains:
How to mobilize the enterprise around delivering what your customers want.
FT Prentice Hall, London 2006
Despite the accumulated body of knowledge and practical experience of the last
50 years, we are still largely ignorant about the underlying mechanisms at work
in corporate logistics networks, and by extension, supply chains.
This continuing situation is leading to diminished or unfulfilled performance
at best, and large-scale failures of transformational programs at worst, all evident
in the pages of the world's business and financial Press on a daily basis.
Living Supply Chains has been nominated by the publisher FT Pearson, for the FT Goldman Sachs Global Business Book Award, and the MCA/Management Today Best Management Book Award. |
The missing 'ingredient' in this whole-of-enterprise performance equation
is the pivotal role played by humans, both on the outside (in the form of customers/end
users/consumers), and on the inside (in the form of Boards, management and employees).
However, simply knowing more about human behaviour in vacuo is not enough;
rather, it is the linkages and interactions between the 'hard' tangible assets
and resources of an enterprise, and the 'softer' human side that must be more
fully comprehended and operationalised.
This book is designed to fill the void in our knowledge by providing
a robust framework that links customers/markets, operational strategy, cultural
capability, and the leadership style of the enterprise.
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Book reviews:
Book review from Supply Chain Asia Magazine
(July / August 2007) Review by Paul Lim
Link to Supply Chain Asia review by Paul Lim [PDF 65.8KB]
Book review from MHD Supply Chain Solutions magazine (March/April2007):
MHD [PDF 147KB]
Book review from Logistics News magazine (February 2007):
Logistics News [PDF 285KB]
The book was quoted in Focus magazine (December 2006):
Focus [PDF 116KB]
Book review from Logistics Solutions Magazine
(Vol 9 Issue 4 Winter 2006):
Logistics Solutions pps 9-11 [PDF 1672 KB]
The book was quoted in The Economist magazine (17th June 2006):
The Economist - Supply Chains special report [PDF 695KB]
Book review from the Financial Times (14th June 2006):
Financial
Times - book review [PDF 26KB]
Book review from AICD Publications (August 2006):
AICD
- book review [PDF 33KB]
Dutch Book review by SCM Magazine p.65 (August 2006):
Dutch SCM Magazine
- book review [PDF 113KB]
English translation [PDF 12KB]
Book review by BRW p.54 (2nd November 2006):
BRW
- book review [PDF 116KB]
Book review by Management Today (AIM) p.45 in section on Best Books in the Business. (Jan/Feb 2007):
Management Today
- book review [PDF 121KB]
Book review from Retail Express, by Nick Shanagher:
Retail Express
- book review [JPEG 251KB]
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