What do Futurists Predict for Supply Chain Planning?
A review of a new book titled Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future, casts doubt on whether current discussions about the future would be useful to strategic planning in business. In this article, I debate how the relevance of potential future scenarios for the supply chain planning field including the impact of Artificial Intelligence. I reveal the debates futurists have over to what extent the future lies within our control, and how far we can look into the future with any degree of accuracy ...
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Driving Business Results With IBP & Segmentation
(Spring 2026)
IBF Journal Article by Larry Lapide, originally published in Spring 2026
What do Futurists Predict for Supply Chain Planning?