Meteorologists are about 70% wrong when they predict the weather, yet everyone watches the weather forecast (btw, snow to come again this weekend in Helsinki). But how about spotting trends in SCM? (á la trainspotters, and lovely plane spotters who have been in the news when spotting illegal CIA transports of people via e.g. Warsaw to Guantánamo or when monitoring the use of Dash aircrafts after the ban by SAS…)
Few dare to make predictions about future events in SCM. While we may every now and then be trend spotters, looking at what’s hot and what’s not in SCM research, admittedly, even good Delphi studies are rather rare in this field. At the same time, future studies has become an established field, rapidly developing their methods. Not as if these were used in much detail, but MIT’s “supply chain 2020” now has a nice blog reflecting on current news and instantly analysing these in terms of scenarios for SCM. Watch out for the trends!
Gyöngyi
