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News Oliver Wight Announces the Release of a Ground-Breaking Book: Integrated Tactical Planning
23rd March 2021

Oliver Wight Announces the Release of a Ground-Breaking Book: Integrated Tactical Planning

Oliver Wight Announces the Release of a Ground-Breaking Book: Integrated Tactical Planning Oliver Wight’s latest book addresses what organizations commonly refer to as “firefighting”. This is a condition where frequent near-term changes in orders, product launches, and supply, d...


News Oliver Wight EAME Awarded Gold Medal for Sustainability
21st February 2023

Oliver Wight EAME Awarded Gold Medal for Sustainability

After being assessed by EcoVadis, the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, Oliver Wight EAME has been awarded a gold medal in recognition of the organization’s sustainability efforts. The result places Oliver Wight EAME in the top five percent of companies as...


Blog Big Tech: Part 2 - Using data to address underlying issues
15th December 2020

Big Tech: Part 2 - Using data to address underlying issues

In Big Tech: Part One, we addressed the demand for insights through advanced analytics, AI and IoT, and looked at how technological developments provide greater understanding of customer demand. In Part Two, we examine how large organisations can address underlying issues in customer experience usin...


Blog Sustainability and the supply chain
15th December 2020

Sustainability and the supply chain

By Flavio Pietrocola, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME Until a few years ago, if you’d asked any senior leader or executive the most important contributing factor to the ‘sustainability’ of their business they would most likely have answered that it was rate of growth and financial ...


Blog The Secrets to Choosing the Right CEO - Part Two
15th December 2020

The Secrets to Choosing the Right CEO - Part Two

By Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Partner at Oliver Wight EAME In part one of ‘The Secrets of Choosing the Right CEO’, we explored why the CEO taking ownership of the change management process is crucial to its success, plus the importance of choosing a CEO whose motivation and ambitions ...


Blog Resilience in the end-to-end supply chain beyond Covid-19
15th December 2020

Resilience in the end-to-end supply chain beyond Covid-19

By Oliver Wight Partner, Flavio Pietrocola Just a few months ago end-to-end (E2E) supply chain agility was a hot topic, but then along came Covid-19 and resilience became the new name of the game. According to the Cambridge Dictionary resilience is ‘the quality of being able to return quick...


Blog The transforming CPG consumer: Changes in consumer segmentation and the need to revise business strategies
15th December 2020

The transforming CPG consumer: Changes in consumer segmentation and the need to revise business strategies

Debbie Bowen-Heaton, Oliver Wight Partner Our daily patterns, lifestyle and business environment have changed dramatically over the last few months, at a speed and to a degree that we could never have fathomed previously. Consumers were already changing their buying habits and expectations, but t...


Blog 6 lessons the pandemic has taught us in making practical business improvements
16th December 2020

6 lessons the pandemic has taught us in making practical business improvements

Flavio Pietrocola, Oliver Wight Partner Whilst the economic crash of 2007 – 2008 taught individuals (such as myself) and organizations alike the importance of being financially and operationally knowledgeable and keeping a reasonable, if not totally healthy, cash flow, the coronavirus crisis ...


Blog Beyond the Human Eye
1st March 2022

Beyond the Human Eye

One year on from the Suez Canal blockage how many leaders can see beyond the human eye? March 23rd marks the first anniversary of the Suez Canal blockage, when already buffeted supply chains were blown off course as the 400-metre-long Ever Given, carrying 18,300 containers, ran aground in a sands...


Blog Predicting what will happen in 2023 is foolish—but smart businesses can prepare for anything
30th November 2022

Predicting what will happen in 2023 is foolish—but smart businesses can prepare for anything

At this time of year, there is always a torrent of prediction articles packed with educated guesses at what the next 12 months will bring. But how useful are they, really? On the eve of 2020, many commentators smugly claimed to have "20/20 vision" and foresight. And yet very few suppos...