After almost 18 months of working a corporate role, I'm back. Although I enjoyed my time as a VP of Supply Chain, I am looking forward to resuming my consulting practice and of course being able to blog on the ongoing issues of the day.
Since I last blogged, the world has been in an economic crisis; we have had an Arab spring and a lot of things for me to get caught up on over the next period of time.
It is amazing when you think of it how things that you hold to be consistent and unchanging end up being anything but. In some cases, that is due to a sense of entitlement -- which I believe is seen by those who are protesting the cutbacks in Greece and sometimes it is a sense of magical thinking that the good times will always be just that -- as seen with the downturn in Ireland.
Regardless, each global event has a significant impact on supply chain and procurement practices. Things that were top of mind yesterday -- like sustainability and other corporate social responsibility programs, get overwhelmed by the need to review business practices, keep costs down and well -- re-engineer.
Sometimes, unfortunately, things that are compatible are seen as mutually exclusive, because only the surface is considered vs. any in-depth consideration.
And I will write about that in the future...but today I'm just saying hello and I'm glad to be back!
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