A conversation between Puneet Suppal, VP Marketing, & Gary Primeau, Member of the Advisory Board, OpsVeda, Inc.
Last week Bill Gates offered his annual list of the top 5 books to read, “5 good books for a lousy year.” I think most of us can agree that 2020 has not been the greatest year of our lives. A year that has been a defining one for many – and largely because of the coronavirus pandemic.
What organizations really need is to see around corners—before they get to them. While the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is growing in popularity, it is becoming increasingly clear that for better decision-making capability, some form of predictive intelligence must precede this.
For supply-chain managers, 2020 has been the year of Murphy’s Law. Anything that could possibly go wrong, has gone wrong. At the start of the year, few of us imagined that we would be facing such unprecedented disruption on a global scale.
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The Supply Chain Research Group at the University of Tennessee, defines supply chain management as “the systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain,
October 12th, 2019 was a red letter day for every athletics fan. That day, for the first time in history a human completed the marathon in under two hours! Eliud Kipchoge the current world record holder did the unbelievable and shaved off a good 2 minutes from his best time.
It was the penultimate day of my trip to our San Jose office. In the evening Vikas, Dinesh & I went for a short hike at the Alviso Marina County Park. It was a beautiful trail and the hike was uneventful except for Vikas’ narration of his past exploits with a mountain lion.
L: Dick Fosbury doing the “Fosbury Flop” to win the high jump gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (Source: International Olympic Committee)
R: Illustration showing path of center of gravity in the Fosbury Flop (Source: Wikimedia Commons, Author: AlanSiegrist)
It was a winter morning over two decades ago. My class mates and I had braved the cold to turn up at the IIT Kanpur airfield to carry out experiments required to complete our course. The excitement was palpable because most of us were going to fly for the first time.
Recently archeologists found evidence suggesting that our seafaring history goes back at least 130,000 years. How our ancestors of that period navigated the vast oceans is not yet known. Till GPS, accurate clocks and reliable weather forecasts became common place, exploration was difficult and risky.