Module 6
Change and Innovation Management
What can you expect?
This module raises the questions of organizational change and innovation in the management of the Supply Chain and studies their impact on the logistic performances. For that purpose, the management facilitates the creation of a favorable context of change. In order to exert a positive impact on change, and consequently on the strategy success of the company, these conditions must be applied in all areas of the Supply Chain organization:
- Internal structure, processes and networks
- Information, modeling and optimization systems
- Human resources and competences
Human resources, in particular, hold an important key to the alignment of the Supply Chain on the business strategy. This is even truer in organizations that are founding the realization of differentiation, competitiveness and dominance in the industry on their operational processes. This module introduces to collaboration models between groups involved:
Directly, in logistic operations and in relations with contractors and suppliers,
Indirectly, in support provided to operations by human resources management.
The learning objectives of this module are to:
- Give the full measure of the human challenges due to the specific issues raised by the Supply Chain, in the context of multi-cultural and multi-functional teams, and the negotiations they require,
- Explain the content and extent of the competences and the motivation required in the integrated management of the Supply Chain, and
- Provide a theoretical framework and concrete tools to the Supply Chain actors for their increased action efficiency and for a better commitment to collective pursuit of strategic service goals.
Prof. Marc Fourny
Envisaged case study and visit: "IKEA & Tetra Pak - Sweden"
Location: Lund, Sweden
Date: September 12-14, 2013