210 March 2021
KEARNEY
“ Our success
as consultants
will depend on
the essential
rightness of the
advice we give
and our capacity
for convincing
those in authority
that it is good”
ANDREW THOMAS
KEARNEY
aim of increasing organisational resilience
and agility, produced in partnership with
MIT Technology Review, Kearney offers
a comprehensive resilience stress test.
Speaking with clients such as Mars and
Johnson and Johnson, MIT and Kearney took
a tech-centric view of data needs and how AI
can help.
The report says that at the core of
company efforts to increase resilience
and agility there should be two strategic
priorities; decreasing complexities and using
data to increase visibility at every node in the
supply chain, and developing action plans to
efficiently respond to change and disruption.
Ghandi walks us through.
Reducing Complexity
Complexity must be managed, not expunged.
“You have to step back and look at your
business a few years out and think, what
are the three things I should do? What are
the structural changes that I should make?