Center For Digital Strategies

Membership in the Roundtable on Digital Strategies delivers an ongoing series of business dialogues at which CIOs and top-level executives of American and European corporations share new insight into the enabling role of information technology in meeting current business challenges. In focused discussions that cut across organizations and industries, Roundtable participants from noncompeting member corporations examine meaningful business issues they have in common. They come away from the day-long experience with new ideas and new approaches to specific challenges—the kind of creative assessment that arises only from diverse perspectives. More ›

Global Supply Chain Management: Shifting Strategies

Roundtable on Digital Strategies
October 15, 2009 • Frederick, MD • hosted by Bechtel

A joint meeting of the Americas and European Chapters. The economic tumult of the last two years has brought additional fragility to the many interdependencies of global supply chains. Given this backdrop, the roundtable focused on preparing for the emerging set of global supply chain challenges, with special focus on risks inherent in current low-cost country human resources, services, material, and product sourcing. Hosted by Bechtel.  More ›

Topics: Collaboration, Globalization, International, Supply Chain, Trust

Elusive Integration:  Making the Link between Sales and Operations Planning

Roundtable on Digital Strategies
February 17, 2004 • Dallas, TX • hosted by Cisco Systems

Mapping customer delivery requirements against the realities of supply chain capability is an endless source of friction in many organizations. Demand forecasts are constantly changing, customer needs are ever more specific, and service requirements are growing in every industry. Supply chain integration has long promised to smooth the wrinkles between sales and operations planning. Yet this remains a thorny problem for companies at all points in a value chain. More ›

Topics: Collaboration, Controls / Metrics, Operations, Process, Sales, Supply Chain, Trust

Real-Time Profit Optimization: Coordinating Demand and Supply Chain Management

Roundtable on Digital Strategies
January 14, 2002 • San Jose, CA • hosted by Cisco

Linking the innovations in supply-chain management with the technology-enabled capability to serve customers in a more targeted manner is key to driving profit optimization. This summit discussed the state-of-the-art, and the future, of demand chain and the supply chain interaction. It addressed the use of digital technologies to improve demand and supply chain coordination and make better use of market information. Discussions covered the promise of using networked technologies for managing and enhancing profit by quickly responding to changing markets - matching supply and demand through more accurate forecasting, improved use of market information, rapid product/service configuration and better coordination of pricing and the supply chain. More ›

Topics: Collaboration, Data, Information Technology, Outsourcing, Supply Chain