What should we teach our students?

I am frequently invited to recruit for our customers and one of the first questions I ask is: “where are your internal applicants?” The most common response to that question is that “we don’t have any”.

Christian Harper shares anecdotal evidence of what he believes is common to all successful supply chain people and why so many people find managing their careers in this field an ongoing challenge.

Thirty years ago it was commonplace to know individuals who spent their entire careers with the same organisation, and sometimes in the same role. Today, not only is it exceedingly rare to know such people, few of us have even heard of it happening in the

Pundits have been bemoaning the current skills shortage and for what seems like a decade. But despite the jeremiads of some, few organisations have taken steps to develop a useful strategy to diminish the negative impacts on their business.

If organisations are going to win the war on talent they must be prepared to invest in employee development, look to groom future talent internally and position themselves to attract and retain top performers.