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Robert Olszak

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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

Sometimes

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What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

Human Resources (HRIS)

Commercial SaaS Offering - Please provide details if possible

Internally Developed

Other - Please provide details if possible

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Is your role at your organization expanding to include new responsibilities?

People & Leadership Team & Organizational Design

Data Analytics

Operations

Business Development

Customer Service

Product Development

Marketing

Finance

Procurement

Sales

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How long does an employee typically stay within your team?

Talent Management & Performance

< 1 year

1-3 years

4-5 years

> 5 years

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Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

Culture & Values AI & Machine Learning

Yes, more jobs created

Yes, jobs lost to AI

Other (please comment)

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What feels like the most difficult part of starting a company?

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Raising funds

A good idea

A good team

High probability it fails

Other (please comment)

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What’s the best software development methodology for enterprise-level projects?

Technical Product Management Software Development Management Tools+1 more

Waterfall

Prototype

Rapid Application Development

Agile Scrum

Agile Kanban

Dynamic System Development

Lean Software Development

Other .. please add it down

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How concerned are you about effects of an attack on your supply chain?

Security & GRC Threat & Vulnerability Management

Very concerned

Somewhat concerned

Not concerned

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What's the most important friction in deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in your company?

People & Leadership Applications & Platforms Engineering+14 more

Cost of RPA products

Lack of developers who can code RPA applications

Amount of customization needed to automate business processes

Lack of RPA code maintenance resources

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What do you feel is a key soft skill in today's marketplace?

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance Culture & Values+6 more

Creativity

Emotional Intelligence

Critical Thinking

Leadership/Management

Complex problem-solving

Other (comment below!)

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For companies that acquire other businesses or go through a period of accelerated growth, what recommendations, suggestions, or insights would you offer on effectively managing SOP documentation, process mapping, job aides, or work instruction development? What internal processes have you seen for properly maintaining process and procedure documentation?

Document Management Business Applications Process Management+1 more

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What techniques are you deploying to attract the next generation of talent to supply chain management? What is your company doing that is unique to develop future supply chain practitioners?

Robert OlszakVP, Manufacturing and Logistics in Transportation14 days ago

To help attract talent and develop future supply chain leaders:

- Our company has a robust academic program that includes partnering with industry and global universities/colleges. Through this program we are able ...read more

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How do you see the role of supply chain management and supply chain operations changing in the next three years?

Robert OlszakVP, Manufacturing and Logistics in Transportation15 days ago

The need for speed with the expansion of AI and overall thirst for operational efficiency will only continue to exacerbate the resources of the supply chain operations. Organizations are still trying to recover from the pandemic. ...read more

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With so many companies focused on profitability, cost optimization, reduction in operating overhead, and improving gross margin, which results in widespread layoffs and downsizing, how is this impacting supply chain management? Within supply chain management, are there high-priority cost savings areas focused on strategic initiatives in 2024 and 2025?

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Robert OlszakVP, Manufacturing and Logistics in Transportationa month ago

Within supply chain function the focus should always be on optimization and efficiency, both in a financially constrained climate and otherwise. Sustaining project partnerships with design teams, lean focused optimization ...read more

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When working with demanding customers or clients, what advice do you have for managing high-stress and high-tension external relationships to achieve a common ground and resolve barriers to communication, alignment on expectations, or expectations around deliverables or work products?

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Robert OlszakVP, Manufacturing and Logistics in Transportationa month ago

The best strategy in my experience is communicating and knowing more of each other. One of my customers once raised a difficult IT request for simplifying their warehouse operations. Our warehouse manage visited them to understand ...read more

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Content Robert is Following

Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

Is your role at your organization expanding to include new responsibilities?

How long does an employee typically stay within your team?

Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

What feels like the most difficult part of starting a company?

What’s the best software development methodology for enterprise-level projects?

How concerned are you about effects of an attack on your supply chain?

What's the most important friction in deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in your company?

What do you feel is a key soft skill in today's marketplace?

What techniques are you deploying to attract the next generation of talent to supply chain management? What is your company doing that is unique to develop future supply chain practitioners?

How do you see the role of supply chain management and supply chain operations changing in the next three years?

When working with demanding customers or clients, what advice do you have for managing high-stress and high-tension external relationships to achieve a common ground and resolve barriers to communication, alignment on expectations, or expectations around deliverables or work products?

How can you consolidate SSCs and individual BPOs into a centralized GBS Model? What strategy deployed worked best, and how was this applied to a global organization?

Important: I am looking for critical insights, expertise, and real-world lessons learned in standing up Global Business Services (GBS TOM Delivery Model) for a carve-out and new operating entity. If you have experience charting this journey, can you offer insights on what worked well?

What is the best advice you have ever received to be an effective supply chain leader?

When outsourcing services and selecting potential vendors and suppliers, what is most critical to the selection process and establishing the shortlist of providers? From experience, what are the specific non-negotiables that you are looking for?

How is your organization evaluating the right AI partner? What rules are you deploying as part of your enterprise supplier selection?

Supply Chain and Sales Collaboration: I would like to learn about potential concepts and models of collaboration between Supply chain Management and Sales. What are the potential benefits of such relationship?

What (if any) precautionary measures are you taking to protect your organization against the potential of increased tariffs on Chinese products?

What customer focus initiatives are you building into your 2025 planning? If you're not including a customer focus component, why not?

As you plan for 2025, what new tech or key projects are you prioritizing in your budget?

How do you keep your procurement process compliant but agile? The function I inherited seems to lean on the bureaucratic side but I don't want to overcorrect.

What strategies do you employ to ensure seamless execution across all stages of your supply chain?

What's your take on autonomous mobile robots helping to automate certain warehouse functions? Are they overhyped and too cost prohibitive to ever REALLY catch on? Will they really enable a shrinking supply chain labor force to step away from repetitive tasks? Curious what others think here...

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Content Robert is Following

Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

Is your role at your organization expanding to include new responsibilities?

How long does an employee typically stay within your team?

Is AI going to affect the number of jobs in your company in the next 12 months?

What feels like the most difficult part of starting a company?

What’s the best software development methodology for enterprise-level projects?

How concerned are you about effects of an attack on your supply chain?

What's the most important friction in deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in your company?

What do you feel is a key soft skill in today's marketplace?

What techniques are you deploying to attract the next generation of talent to supply chain management? What is your company doing that is unique to develop future supply chain practitioners?

How do you see the role of supply chain management and supply chain operations changing in the next three years?

When working with demanding customers or clients, what advice do you have for managing high-stress and high-tension external relationships to achieve a common ground and resolve barriers to communication, alignment on expectations, or expectations around deliverables or work products?

How can you consolidate SSCs and individual BPOs into a centralized GBS Model? What strategy deployed worked best, and how was this applied to a global organization?

Important: I am looking for critical insights, expertise, and real-world lessons learned in standing up Global Business Services (GBS TOM Delivery Model) for a carve-out and new operating entity. If you have experience charting this journey, can you offer insights on what worked well?

What is the best advice you have ever received to be an effective supply chain leader?

When outsourcing services and selecting potential vendors and suppliers, what is most critical to the selection process and establishing the shortlist of providers? From experience, what are the specific non-negotiables that you are looking for?

How is your organization evaluating the right AI partner? What rules are you deploying as part of your enterprise supplier selection?

Supply Chain and Sales Collaboration: I would like to learn about potential concepts and models of collaboration between Supply chain Management and Sales. What are the potential benefits of such relationship?

What (if any) precautionary measures are you taking to protect your organization against the potential of increased tariffs on Chinese products?

What customer focus initiatives are you building into your 2025 planning? If you're not including a customer focus component, why not?

As you plan for 2025, what new tech or key projects are you prioritizing in your budget?

How do you keep your procurement process compliant but agile? The function I inherited seems to lean on the bureaucratic side but I don't want to overcorrect.

What strategies do you employ to ensure seamless execution across all stages of your supply chain?

What's your take on autonomous mobile robots helping to automate certain warehouse functions? Are they overhyped and too cost prohibitive to ever REALLY catch on? Will they really enable a shrinking supply chain labor force to step away from repetitive tasks? Curious what others think here...