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Face-to-face with supply chain thought leaders

"Supply Chain Spotlight" video series features advice, challenges, and success stories from 18 top supply chain professionals.

Leading academic Yossi Sheffi discusses how business resiliency requirements have changed in the past 10 years

Have you ever wished you could sit down with the executive vice president of global supply chain management at Starbucks and pick his brain for 10 minutes? Or talk with Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Yossi Sheffi about his latest research into business resiliency and cybersecurity?

Time, space, and work schedules might make this difficult, but a new series of videos from CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly, DC Velocity's sister publication, could be the next best thing.


Filmed during the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference in San Diego, the "Supply Chain Spotlight" videos feature leading members of the supply chain community talking about their professional paths and passions. To watch the videos, go to www.supplychainquarterly.com/video/.

Just a week after the CSCMP conference, DCV conducted its own series of video interviews, this time with luminaries attending the 2015 MHI Fall Conference and Executive Summit. In one clip, Mike Rowe, familiar host of CNN's popular "Somebody's Gotta Do It" series, discuss the hidden value of careers that don't require a college degree and the financial benefits of avoiding that mountain of student-loan debt.

In another clip, Coca-Cola Co. vice president David Butler shares his secrets for sustaining creativity and innovation within a large corporate bureaucracy. To watch the videos, visit www.dcvelocity.com/dcvtv/news/.

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