WORKSHOPS
For over a decade, James has travelled the world delivering industry-leading workshops and strategy sessions for an impressive list of multinationals. Built of insights gathered during his 25-year career, James has distilled his vast knowledge into these result-driven sessions.
Highly sought after and tailored to suit individual customers needs, these game-changing workshops offer actionable advice and provide tactical tools to win. Check out the below testimonials to see what supply chain leaders think.
As part of conference breakouts, training days, industry events, or university lectures.
From large teams to smaller groups, James is ready to deliver insight and value.
Spots are limited! Be sure to plan so you don't miss out at your next event.
WORKSHOP SERVICE OVERVIEW
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM JAMES
GLOBAL EXPERTISE
In a world where your customers have localised needs, generic strategies and advice are no longer enough to win.
James has worked with hundreds of companies all across Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific. Emerging or established. Localised or global. No matter which markets you or your customers operate in James has the global insight to match.
TEAM BUILDING
Frustrated seeing your valuable team members uninspired and disengaged during workshop sessions?
Workshopping is a great strategic exercise. When done right it is a great opportunity to build stronger teams. With this in mind, the content in each session is designed to inspire team members to agree on a common approach and galvanise them behind an aligned vision.
ACTIONABLE RESULTS
Many workshops end up as round-table discussions, failing to deliver any tactical insight or actionable results.
While there is a time for general discussion, if you are spending the time, money and resources to bring in an expert, you expect actionable results. These workshops are designed to include interactive tasks, tactical tools and outcome-based action plans.
UNBIAS ADVICE
Workshops run by industry vendors, typically leveraging content driven toward sales of their products or services.
James is not associated with any product vendors or service providers. He offers reliable, unbias advice honed through many years of fact-driven market research. Outcomes are based on what is best for your organisation, not a particular vendor, service, or product.
CURRENT EXECUTIVE WORKSHOPS
DESIGNING YOUR DIGITAL
SUPPLY CHAIN
With newfound urgency, corporate leaders are challenging their heads of supply chain to come up with a roadmap for digital development. However, many are struggling to define what the journey toward digital excellence looks like to select the right approach.
In this session, James covers this journey towards digital excellence and provides a strategic framework to design your digital roadmap for success.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
DESIGNING ETHICAL
SUPPLY CHAINS
Companies embracing ethical innovation will soon wield a powerful weapon to drive efficiencies, cement brand value and open up profitable new markets. CEO's are now tasking their heads of supply chain to design a roadmap that aligns with these targets.
In this session, James covers aligning supply chain with corporate ESG goals, and provides a framework to create a tactical CSR strategy.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to incorporate environmental and social targets into their strategies and operations.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
CREATING COMPELLING
BUSINESS CASES
Building compelling business cases has long been a challenge for supply chain leaders when designing their strategies. With so many stakeholders to deal with (most with competing goals), crafting the right approach to gain buy-in can be difficult.
In this session, James covers evolving corporate agendas and provides and a key stakeholder value matrix for building out compelling value propositions.
This workshop is designed to assist supply chain leaders in creating compelling business cases that will win the imagination of senior stakeholders.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
MASTERING TOMORROWS
TECHNOLOGY TODAY
Technology is a competitive advantage only when you make the right bets at the right time. But with so many emerging solutions, which should you invest in and when? Getting this wrong can have dire ramifications for the supply chain and the organisation overall.
In this session, James covers the emerging technology landscape and provides tactical tools organisations can use to explore tomorrows technology today.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to explore and pilot new and emerging technology to drive competitive advantages.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE
TEAMS
Innovation is now fundamental in modern supply chains, but for a function built on continuous improvement, it's a new concept. For many companies fostering innovation, developing core competencies and developing talent remains a challenge.
In this session, James outlines the core elements to developing innovation. Talent competencies, organisational design and governance structures.
This workshop is designed for companies looking to build innovation into their culture and develop the teams and governance to manage it effectively.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION
Cross-functional integration is a critical component of supply chain efficiency and performance, yet over 80% of organisations still fail to achieve it. Most struggle to define a common vision and strategic approach to align different functional stakeholders.
In this session, James covers the art and science behind cross-functional integration, providing frameworks you can use to align the various functions
This workshop is designed for supply chain leaders looking to develop cross-functional collaboration, integration, and execution.
This workshop is designed for organisations looking to define a digital vision, create strategic roadmaps and develop technological capabilities.