Stories by Lee Pender

Get it right, and supply chain software can bring order of magnitude savings in the way you plan, make and ship products. Get one piece of it wrong and it will break you.

No matter how precious the dollars, the companies that continue to look for new ways to do business are the companies that succeed

How to end the war and profit from the new relationship.

McCullough, the former CIO of Delta Air Lines, found himself reshaping his new company's IT infrastructure without the benefit of a large budget or staff.

When IT and corporate see eye-to-eye, it's a recipe for alignment success. In this story:
Discover how alignment can help a company run smoothly
Learn the philosophies of an aligned organisation
Understand what executives expect in an aligned company

Translating IT value into business terms requires constant chats across corporate aisles. It means that every project fits into the company's game plan

Frustrated by the immaturity of current CRM applications? Build them yourself. Others have done it and done it well.

Integrating ERP with e-commerce applications doesn't have to be a nightmare, but it depends on where you start