I had the pleasure of hosting Enrique Salem (CEO Symantec) today as part of our Britt Technology Impact Series. This year the series is focused on cloud and we have already had a fantastic line-up of speakers from infrastructure providers (Peter DeSantis of Amazon), service providers (Kent Parker of Ariba), the enterprise user side (CIOs […]
I had the pleasure of discussing cloud communities with Kent Parker (COO of Ariba) during his recent visit to speak in my class. Ariba is a fascinating case study of a procurement firm that survived the B2B boom of the later 90s and subsequent melt down. Cloud is “back to the future” for Ariba. In […]
Thanks to my friends at the POMS Supply Chain College, I visited Amazon’s Fulfillment Center (Fernley NV) this week. It is an amazing operation shipping 100,000 items on a routine day and over 400,000/day during peak holiday season. While not the most automated facility I have seen, the Fernley Center has embraced a level of […]