BBS017 - Soundbites and the Supply Chain of future practice

G’day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 17 of the show - and we are into the 4th month!

 

Sad to report that the podcast has suffered from a supply chain disruption over recent weeks.

This show is not a business, but it can be viewed as a product and it is exposed to supply and demand side supply chain risks - over recent weeks a number of supply side risks have been realised.

 

There are a lot of things that we can look at in supply chain terms, and supply chain is a major area of focus on the show this month. Later in the month I am speaking with Jan Husdal who has a massive body of work around supply chain risk and resilience on his blog. We will also get some different thinking and perspectives from Jan as he comes from he logistics rather than BC domain. We round out the month with book club featuring Betty Kildow’s “A Supply Chain Management Guide to BC”.

 

But back to the context of this show.

 

With Beyond the Black Stump I also originally promoted a sub-title - a podcast about learning, leadership and the limitations we impose on our own thinking! Thought leadership as a social activity, driven by conversations.

 

These conversation, the ideas and the thinking are a critical component of the supply chain of the future of the discipline and the future of practice. Without new ideas and the product we deliver will stagnate, and without critical thinking and continuous improvement we run the risk that demand for the product will dry up.

 

One critical input, and a source of ideas, is to read and to read a wider range of material. In November I encouraged people to read a book during the month, we had John Bircham talk bout his book. But unfortunately we don’t read enough. The show starts with a sound bite from Phil Wood, talking about the prevalence of sound bite thinking!

 

Links to the earlier shows these are extracted from

• Phil Wood
• David Lindstedt & Mark Armour
• David Porter
• Nat Forbes
• Luke Bird

 

• Thinking outside the building (or the discipline in this case)

What you will hear in this episode is people who are thinking “outside the discipline” - not just applying the legacy practices or frameworks of risk or BC.

 

We are part of the profession of management, just a subset of it. Do you talk about the Doctor Profession, or the Medical Profession?

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I hope you have found some ideas to put into your planning pipeline for 2016 in this. Will you be planning to address the same old risks and threats next year?

 

Even if you approach your practice in a new way, if it still only addresses the same threats then the Leadership of your business may not notice.

 

Supply Chain risk and Cyber threat are not new threats - they are old threats that many in BC are just coming to appreciate.

 

 

 

Thank you for listening these past few months, I am looking forward to the show continuing and improving in 2016. I hope you find some ideas to drive your practice’s supply chain.

 

Coming up in the next show I will be talking about Supply Chain resilience with Ja Husdal. take a look at his blog www.husdal.com - it is a veritable treasure trove of literature reviews and thinking on the subject.

 

Until then, travel safely on your journey.