Exploring Digital Resilience in COVID, Technology Investments to Accelerate Innovation, Plastics & Climate, and Consumer Behavior & Sustainability- Part 2 with Dr. Yossi Sheffi (MIT)

This is an ACTION-PACKED EPISODE! Epsiode 47 is part 2 of a series where Sheri Hinish (SupplyChainQueen) chats with a thought leader and supply chain advocate, Dr. Yossi Sheffi from MIT who has been teaching, learning, building, authoring many publications, including a new book ‘the New (Ab) Normal’ in a conversation that pushes boundaries highlighting areas that many in supply chain and technology shy away from discussing…getting real on transformation, innovation, and disruption.

In part 2, Episode 47, we’ll explore doubling down on technology for transformative change. From AI, digital twins, and a deeper dive in human behavior, Dr. Sheffi gives you the steps to risk management and recovery in COVID and beyond when designing for resilience.

Topics in this episode include using AI to shape human behavior, the technology investments you should make in supply chain, steps to digital resilience learned in COVID, education needed to connect consumer behavior and sustainability, ESG prosperity and a PoV on BlackRock, plastic impacts on climate change reduction, LCIA and the impacts of meat-consumption, a word of CAUTION when using AI and machine learning in supply chain optimization & planning, and lastly lessons learned from his career as a Rebel in supply chain and logistics.

To learn more, visit https://sheffi.mit.edu/ and https://www.amazon.com/New-Ab-Normal-Reshaping-Business-ebook/dp/B08JHXQG1L/

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