Boston Strategies International Library
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The Boston Strategies International Library helps decision-makers form long-term strategic plans by providing cutting-edge research, analysis, and forecasts from the world’s most respected global supply chain economists. The Library’s content — including presentations, videocasts, white papers, audio recordings and articles — is organized into the topic areas below.
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| Supply Chain Strategy, Policy, and Economics |
| Supply chain management should yield far more than cost reduction. It should result in delighted customers, marketing flexibility, and enhanced innovation and speed of doing business across multiple processes around the world. While traditional operations improvement has focused on how to reduce cost, the Library is chock full of leading-edge global supply chain strategies, merger & acquisition advice, capital investment reviews, market entry & exit strategies, risk mitigation strategies, supply chain technology strategies, policy position papers, and perspectives on world class supply chain organizational development.
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| The continued rapid growth of global trade depends on reliable and efficient infrastructure. Global infrastructure will not keep pace with growth, despite investments being made in Asia and the Middle East. Policy makers need to base long-term decisions on solid supply chain strategies and reliable costs, prices, rates, demand, and risk forecasts.
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| Supply Chain Project and Technology Management |
| A good strategy is useless without good execution. In supply chain management, small mistakes at one end can cause major delivery failures and dissatisfied customers at the other. The field is littered with thousands of ideas about supply chain execution, but few are really worth management's precious time. Through Boston Strategies International's Supply Chain Execution series, you can get real shareholder value out of supply chain management.
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| Supply Chain Organization and Training |
| By 2015, 80% of corporate market capitalization will be derived from intangible assets. Human capital will be virtually your only competitive advantage. Unfortunately, operations management and supply chain in particular has evolved faster than most multinationals' formal training programs. The Library offers access to Boston Strategies International's supply chain organization development thought papers to help global companies execute their ambitious strategies.
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| Cost and Pricing Intelligence |
| All industries experience price and cost fluctuations, and industries in transition often experience volatility in capacity and lead times that require forward strategic planning. Unfortunately, the data that is readily available for purchase is of unacceptably low-quality to support strategic long-term decisions related to capital investment, market entry, and mergers and acquisitions.
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| Being the world leader in an industry means thinking far ahead of the competition and proactively driving new business models through the supply chain — at a global level and at a fast pace. Formulating the strategy requires credible market intelligence and insight. Unfortunately, most of the data that is readily available for purchase is of unacceptably low-quality for long-range executive decision-making. The Library's Industry Research reports analyze demand, capacity, key players, costs, prices, and strategies.
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| Technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) are impressive and fascinating, but in many cases their return on investment is still unclear. How much do they cost? Where are their most and least effective applications? The Library will continue to deliver updates on how to manage technology so it doesn't manage you.
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