AOS PodcastExpense ManagementSupplier Management Ultimate Endless Real Estate Costs at Red Lobster Red Lobster is the largest seafood chain in the United States. It buys 20 percent of North American lobster tails…Kelly BarnerJune 27, 2024
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends Dodging the Urban Doom Loop In the book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins wrote about the flywheel effect, a prosperous cycle of work and adjustment…Kelly BarnerAugust 31, 2023
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends Who is to blame for Yellow’s demise? On July 30th, 2023, Yellow announced that they would cease operations after 99 years and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just…Kelly BarnerAugust 24, 2023
AOS PodcastLeadershipSupplier ManagementTalent ManagementTrends Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature “For men like Ford, Firestone, and Edison, whose success in the world had given them access to any thing they…Kelly BarnerAugust 17, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends The Problem with Performative ESG Although we talk about ESG programs all the time, they actually haven’t been with us for very long. ESG initiatives…Kelly BarnerAugust 10, 2023
AOS PodcastSupplier ManagementTrends Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge China is one of the most influential consumer, industrial, and raw materials markets in the world. Unfortunately, they are also…Kelly BarnerAugust 3, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRSupplier ManagementTalent ManagementTrends Public Education as Corporate Social Responsibility Talent is a huge concern for all companies. Skills requirements continue to grow even as executive leaders worry that they…Kelly BarnerJuly 27, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementSupplier Management Tracking Procurement from Industry 1.0 – 5.0 While researching a recent episode of Dial P, I came across material on the difference between Industry 4.0 and 5.0.…Kelly BarnerJuly 20, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementSupplier Management Russia’s Wagner Group as Rogue Supplier On June 23rd, news broke that the Wagner Group, a private militia operating on behalf of Russia in the war…Kelly BarnerJuly 13, 2023
AOS PodcastTalent ManagementTrends R.I.P. Great Resignation (2020-2023) We have seen many trends come and go over the last few years, and most of them stemmed from the…Kelly BarnerJuly 6, 2023
AOS PodcastDigitizationTalent ManagementTrends Meet Digit – The Future of Warehouse Automation Agility Robotics recently released the latest version of their humanoid warehouse robot: Digit. Digit is 5 foot 9, weighs 141…Kelly BarnerJune 29, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management Are contracts obscuring U.S. child labor in your supply chain? Human rights concerns are at the top of the priority list for supply chain and procurement professionals. Among the most…Kelly BarnerJune 22, 2023
AOS PodcastCSRTrends Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign: Evolution of a Social Message In 2004, Dove revolutionized skincare marketing by launching their ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign. Celebrated for the decision to represent women of…Kelly BarnerJune 15, 2023
AOS Podcast Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and…Kelly BarnerJune 8, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSupplier ManagementTrends The Laws of Supply and Demand Meat at Tyson Foods In his book, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith…Kelly BarnerJune 1, 2023
AOS PodcastExpense ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management A GAAP in Judgement at Kraft Heinz Procurement is used to being under pressure to deliver savings, but is that pressure enough to make procurement break the…Kelly BarnerMay 25, 2023
AOS PodcastLeadershipRisk ManagementSourcing & Contracting JPMorgan Chase Stops the Financial Contagion In 1907, J.P. Morgan was called back from a trip to help stop a series of bank runs on Wall…Kelly BarnerMay 18, 2023
AOS PodcastData & AnalyticsRisk ManagementSupplier Management Supply Chain Cyber Attack: Expeditors and iRobot Cyber attacks have been on the rise since 2020, occurring with increasing frequency and having a more detrimental impact to…Kelly BarnerMay 11, 2023
AOS PodcastLeadershipRisk ManagementSupplier Management Bed Bath & Beyond’s Decline from Superstore to No-more Bed Bath & Beyond was founded in New Jersey in 1971. Popular for its effective use of the ‘superstore’ concept,…Kelly BarnerMay 4, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingTalent Management Negotiating The Big One: UPS and the Teamsters Labor Union The labor contract between UPS and the Teamsters union is the largest private collective bargaining agreement in North America -…Kelly BarnerApril 27, 2023
AOS PodcastRisk ManagementSourcing & ContractingSupplier Management Case Dismissed: Spencer Patton Prevails Over FedEx In August of 2022, the relationship between FedEx Ground and their network of delivery contractors looked like it was about…Kelly BarnerApril 6, 2023
AOS Podcast Dial P Updated Classic: Tentatively Making the Trains Run on Time In 2022, we saw more than our fair share of high profile strikes. There were the Canadian truckers and the…Kelly BarnerJanuary 5, 2023