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Winning Shipping Strategies

Winning Shipping Strategies 

Theory and Evidence from Leading Shipowners

Paul Emmanuelides & George Tsavliris

This book develops a comprehensive framework of winning shipping strategies through the application of established Strategic Management theory to the analysis of the shipping industry, while taking into consideration the many specificities of this hypercompetitive, cyclical, global sector. Empirical evidence is drawn from case studies of leading firms from the thriving Greek shipping...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/10/12/winning-shipping-strategies/

Transplace acquires consulting firm LeanCor Supply Chain Group

Tuesday morning, Transplace, a leading managed transportation and logistics services provider, announced the acquisition of LeanCor Supply Chain Group, a Florence, Kentucky-based consulting firm focused on end-to-end supply chain consulting, training, solutions and lean manufacturing principles.

LeanCor was founded in 2005 by Robert Martichenko, a recognized expert in lean principles, and grew to more than 100 employees. The deal was Transplace’s third this year, following the acquisitions of...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/transplace-acquires-consulting-firm-leancor-supply-chain-group

Learning Fast to Survive and Thrive

Learning Fast to Survive and Thrive

To BCG’s network around the world,

Eighteen months ago, my colleagues and I laid out a leadership agenda, Winning the ’20s, aimed at this new decade. The first of our five imperatives highlighted that the nature of competition was rapidly changing and that the rate of learning would become a core source of advantage. We expected this to play out over several years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shrunk this timeline down to months, if not weeks.

Outside of war,...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/06/01/learning-fast-to-survive-and-thrive/

Industry-wide survey highlights shipping’s diversity challenges

Heidi Heseltine, Co-Founder, Diversity Study Group

Industry-wide survey highlights shipping’s diversity challenges

Preliminary results from Diversity Study Group survey highlights gender disparity at management level and need for progress on pay gap and workplace culture
Call for more shipping professionals to complete the survey

20 May, 2020 – The first results from a groundbreaking new study into diversity and inclusion in shipping reveal the progress still to be made, particularly in gender...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/05/21/industry-wide-survey-highlights-shippings-diversity-challenges/

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