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By: Amy McDougall When it comes to knee replacement surgery, ensuring the highest quality of materials used in the implant is paramount....
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Sep 253 min read
Lives Depend on a Resilient and Trusted Supply Chain
By: Charlie McGillis The “ State of the Space Industrial Base 2023 ” report led by Maj Gen (Ret) John Olsen recommended establishing...
Jun 172 min read
(Re)-Establishing Trust
I conduct informal polls when speaking publicly. I ask a series of simple questions: “How many of you trust your government? The media?...
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Inclusion, Creative Destruction, and Innovation
In " Why Nations Fail , " the concept of creative destruction and innovation plays a central role in the authors' argument about the...
Nov 2, 20233 min read
Transparency with Trust: Protecting the Answers to the 4Ps of Commercial Trust
2020 taught us all that supply chains matter. Obvious. How to manage them with the right level of transparency - Not so obvious. Even...
Oct 8, 20232 min read
Tech Standards: The Cornerstone of Commercial Success
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, technology standards are critical drivers of success and innovation. Business leaders...
Oct 5, 20232 min read
The 4Ps of Commercial Trust
In the intricate web of global supply chains, the establishment and sustenance of commercial trust rests firmly upon four pivotal...
Apr 17, 20232 min read
What are we fighting for? You might be surprised by the answer.
By Jeff Gaus This post is inspired by Thomas Friedman’s most recent piece in the New York Times Opinion | America, China and a Crisis of...
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Commercial Trust Architecture (CTA) – Technology
Some of the most widely used innovations today started with a robust architecture or layering of elements that scale. Did you make a...
Oct 21, 20212 min read
How a System of Evidence Substantiates the Supply Chain.
We’ve entered a new era. Recent disruptions in our supply chains have illuminated the heightened need for visibility and transparency....
Oct 19, 20212 min read
The 4th Software Wave is Not on Backorder
Some of you likely remember when you generated a purchase order with an actual piece of paper, a 3-part duplicate - file one in a 3 ring...
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Don't Talk to Strangers...or Buy from them Online
During our upbringing, we all heard the phrase, “Don’t talk to strangers.” While this notion may fall under the umbrella of common sense,...
Mar 24, 20212 min read
Embrace Technology
In one of my all-time favorite videos , Nike’s co-Founder Phil Knight provides the voice over to questions that plague the footwear and...
Mar 12, 20212 min read
A Billion Here, a Billion There...
American folklore holds that Senator Everett Dirksen once quipped: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real...
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Consumers are the Whole Problem; And it's Not Their Fault
What links climate change, pollution, child and forced labor, and deforestation? The answer is very simple: Us. The choices we make as...
Feb 16, 20212 min read
Trust, but Verify.
“Trust, but verify.” This Russian proverb was made famous during the 1980s when Ronald Reagan used it to describe the process of...
Feb 9, 20213 min read
Shopping in 2025: Personalized, Intelligent, and Supported
In 2020, COVID sent us to our rooms to think about what we’d done. Flights were grounded, factories went silent, and human activity...
Feb 2, 20212 min read
With Technology Adoption - Timing is Everything
Exhibit A in “Timing is Everything” is: Telemedicine. I first gained experience with Telemedicine as a North American Healthcare sector...
Jan 27, 20215 min read
The Provenance Paradox
A paradox is when something runs contrary to one’s expectation. Familiar examples include M.C. Escher’s perspective-based drawings of...
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Are you Scared of Transparency? The Premise and the Promise.
In 2020 there were lots of scary things going on in the world, and perhaps more “transparency” is already on your radar screen as one of...
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