Transforming supply chains : realign your business to better serve customers in a disruptive world

Foreword / by Don Hicks, managing director, Multiverse Investments, Detroit Area, USA -- Adapt or die : the problems facing traditional supply chains -- Surviving in today's fast-moving topsy-turvy world -- Dynamic alignment : a heuristic to cut through complexity -- High-performance supply chains do not just evolve -- "Outside-in" design for supply chains -- Seeing the world through the eyes of your customers and other key stakeholders -- Tailored supply chains give flexibility -- Competing on differentiation -- Decision making at a faster clockspeed -- Decision support systems, analytics and tools for faster, better decisions -- Working in an omni-channel world -- Designing the optimal array of pathways to market -- Critical internal capabilities -- Shaping the appropriate subcultures to propel operational strategies forward -- Digital strategies -- Developing a digital supply chain via automation, digitisation, iot and blockchain -- From a "static" to "dynamic" supply chain philosophy -- Disrupting the organisation and increasing clockspeed -- Future business models -- Focusing on true value, scale and efficient use of resources -- Transformation delivered -- With all its moving parts : one step back; two steps forward -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.