Apparel Manufacturing Workers Diaries – The lives and wages of garment workers The Garment Worker Diaries is a yearlong research project led by Microfinance Opportunities in collaboration with Fashion Revolution and supported by C&A Foundation. We are collecting data on the lives of apparel manufacuring workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. Fashion Revolution will use the […]
“Come mothers and fathers throughout the land And don’t criticize what you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters, beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin’ So get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand For the times, they are a-changin’” The Times They Are A Changin’ – Bob […]
I had an interesting conversation with one of my clients’ suppliers today that started me thinking about Timereaction, and how it can protect your company’s interests. We have always looked at the value to our clients, where Timereactions’ ability to track every event or message is logged, providing a bullet-proof audit trail. Where the problem starts […]
Stress levels lowered, jobs completed on time with clarity and transparency across the board of contributors about the process? Is this possible in the world of large scale manufacturing? Yes it is. Allan Diamond, CEO and founding father of TimeReaction takes some time out from his day to showcase the masterpiece that he and his son Kevin have […]
Timereaction was founded on two simple premises; there has to be a more productive way to manage workflow, and that email is an ineffective way to collaborate within a global environment. We’re not naive to believe that email will disappear overnight, but there have been some tremendous advances including tools like Slack who’s incredible rise in popularity gives hope […]
Social business is about embedding collaboration within people’s everyday work environments, delivering capabilities so far superior to existing ways of working that they become simply the way things are done. Email or IM are excellent for communication, but they take place outside of organizational systems, causing information to reside in silos that depend not on […]
Aberdeen Group‘s paper on “Supply Chain Visibility: A Critical Strategy to Optimize Cost and Service” indicated that increasing visibility is a critical strategy for enterprises aimed at reducing costs and improving operational performance in the context of their increasingly complex and multi-tiered global supply-demand networks. “63% of respondents felt that supply chain visibility was a […]
The Capabilities of Future Manufacturers To make the most of the new opportunities, manufacturers will need to quickly overcome current operational challenges. Manufacturers will need to completely rethink their business model: the way they source raw materials, the way they design products, the way they manufacture and fulfill customer orders, and the way they engage […]
“Organizational Intelligence” as defined by Aberdeen Group, is the intellectual capacity of an entire organization to act effectively and proactively. It is the application of supply chain intelligence concepts, including learning mechanisms, analytics, and the control tower approach. It fosters cross functional alignment between management, teams, departments, and embedding intelligent organizational cultures and workflows into the corporate […]
Hessie Jones wrote a series that articles in the Huffington Post that profiled four companies who have developed technologies that are not only responding to this data shift, but are paving the way for businesses to rethink how they manage and measure information and communication in order to remain competitive. “Efficiency. Agility. The new competitive advantage. The conditions […]