How Diversity and Adversity Can Challenge and Grow your Career
This week’s Wednesday’s for Women features ElMarie Hugo, senior director of North America Industry Strategy as interviewed by Christine Dykstra, director of North America Demand Generation. ElMarie shares how moving from South Africa to the U.S. has taken her career path in a totally different…
ICON 2020 is Coming to Denver: 4 Reasons You Should Attend
ICON – our annual customer conference gathering more than 2,000 global attendees together – is coming to Denver in 2020. Stay in the know about the biggest and best supply chain conference of the year with our blog series that will highlight what’s new at…
Have a Voice and Use It
Today’s Wednesdays for Women blog is an insightful conversation with JDA customer Kelly Killingsworth, vice president of Supply Chain Systems Optimization & Transportation at Walmart. I had the opportunity to connect with Kelly at the RILA conference in February and then again at the JDA…
Using the Past to Predict the Future with Spinnaker’s George Fowler
In the final episode of JDA’s Executive Exchange video series, JDA Icon Reporter Sarah Barnes-Humphrey interviews Spinnaker’s George Fowler on the value of digital transformation. As George explains, “understanding the past to predict the future” is a key asset in leveraging JDA’s technologies to power…
Solving the Supply Planning Crisis
If your home was on fire, would you want firefighters to attempt to douse the flames with an old manual bucket line? Of course not. You would want them to use the most modern, effective equipment available. So why are you asking your supply planners…
Harnessing Self-Worth
Lucy Ehlers is a senior customer executive at JDA and shares why making the leap to JDA was the biggest – and best – opportunity she has had in her career. She shares her views on the importance of harnessing self-worth, and why staying true…
3 Factors That Are Driving Supply Chain Investments in a Q&A with Brian Higgins of KPMG [Video]
With transparency and speed to market both top drivers for investments when applying supply chain strategies to business operations, how do companies truly optimize their efforts and investments? And what may hold them back? Incisiv’s Gaurav Pant interviews Brian Higgins of KPMG who shares his…
Taking Leaps of Faith
Meet Donna Gaspard, senior director of alliances at JDA, who believes listening is the most important thing a leader can do, and that authenticity is the single-most important trait we should carry within ourselves. She took a position in sales at a time she thought…
Career Resilience
Patricia Diniz Soares, senior corporate counsel at JDA, is a proud single mom and trailblazer in her career. Describing herself as resilient, persuasive and passionate – all qualities that shine through in her personal life, career journey and current role at JDA – she shares…
The Roadmap to Digital Transformation with Lenzing’s CCO [Video]
Robert Van De Kerkhof, CCO of Lenzing, sits down with JDA ICON reporter Sarah Barnes-Humphrey in episode five of an eight-part series featuring various industry leaders discussing the importance of digital transformation for their businesses. Van De Kerkhof explains that it’s a digital roadmap that…