A New Critical Skills Set for the ‘Butterfly Effect’ Era

January 15, 2025
By Thomas W. Derry

For 30 years, from the mid-1990s to the 2010s, we had a good thing going in supply chain management. The global system of trade was stable and predictable. Our operating principles were straightforward: leverage spend volume and seek lowest available cost (assuming quality as a constant).

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