Who said supply chains are boring?

Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Little do they realize that every time they discard or recycle a carton of milk they are completing the end of the supply chain cycle. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Supply Chain Jam

Tomorrow I will be participating in an internal IBM supply chain jam. A jam is IBM lingo for a giant, well organised live chat session on a particular topic. Almost like a global, virtual conference. This article in MIT Review explains it best. The concept is to use the collective ideas of hundreds of experts to come up with innovative ideas. A few years back IBM used a jam to choose 10 projects that eventually were funded with $100 million. So these are serious collaborations.

Jams can be done internally and externally, of course IBM sells the ability to do a jam to clients.

Anyway, I will try and find out what I can share externally once its over.

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Supply Chain Jam

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