This episode explores:

• Generative AI’s (genAI’s) impacts from Google’s viewpoint. (1:12)
• How Google’s products and services, especially its supply chain operations, are evolving with genAI’s influence. (4:46)
• Key aspects of a strong supply chain organization foundation for genAI. (8:44)
• Supply chain talent management and upskilling for genAI. (11:10)
• Recommendations for supply chain leaders to better leverage gen AI in their organizations. (15:07)

In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Thomas O’Connor and guest Ana Corrales, COO of Google’s Devices & Services business, discuss Google’s approach to generative AI (genAI) implementation across their various products and services. The discussion also explores how supply chain leaders can develop foundational capabilities like sourcing clean data and upskilling supply chain talent.

Ana Corrales is the Chief Operating Officer for Google’s Devices & Services business. As COO, Ana leads the development process for Google hardware products — Pixel phones with Google’s custom silicon, Google Tensor, Pixel Buds, Nest thermostats, speakers, displays and cameras, Fitbit smartwatches and trackers and more — and manages getting those products into the hands of customers. Ana also drives the end-to-end IT efforts and customer experience work across the Google Devices and Services business. Ana previously led Google Devices and Services’ first party channel growth with the Google Store e-commerce site and the first-ever retail store. Ana holds several leadership positions across Google. She is a member of the Women@Google board and is an executive sponsor for HOLA, Google’s Latinx Employee Resource Group. She also sits on Google’s Advanced Technology Review Council (ATRC) for AI Principles-related topics, and on the Trust & Compliance Steering Committee.

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This episode explores:

• How the Top 25 and the supply chains it ranks have evolved over the past two decades. (1:10)
• The common themes and context among organizations that stood out this year. (3:38)
• Surprises and standouts among company rankings. (7:50)
• How the Top 25 leaders are incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) into their operations. (12:50)
• Recommendations for supply chain leaders based on practices from the Top 25 organizations. (14:07)

In this episode of the Gartner Supply Chain Podcast, hosts Thomas O’Connor and Lindsay Azim speak with Simon Bailey, Gartner VP Analyst and Top 25 Program Lead Author, on how both the program and supply chains have evolved in the last 20 years. Simon provides insight into this year’s rankings, macro trends, and specific examples of how organizations emerge as leaders across talent, sustainability, digitalization and risk and resilience. Simon also provides several recommendations for supply chain leaders seeking to drive value using transferable lessons from this year’s masters and supply chain leaders.

Simon Bailey is a VP analyst in Gartner’s CSCO enablement team, supporting CSCO’s strategy development in areas including customer centricity, ecosystem orchestration and sustainability. He is also the lead author for Gartner’s Top 25 program and recent published work includes The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024: Insights on Leaders, The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024: Methodology and The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024: Rankings. He has also lead the Supply Chain Strategy Predicts process for several years and recently published Predicts 2024: Reshape Supply Chain Strategy to Outpace Disruption, and Use Ecosystem Partnerships to Achieve Sustainability Goals and collaborated on A Three-Step Approach for Driving Growth via the Supply Chain.

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This episode explores:

• How, despite geopolitical instability, CSCOs can meet growing performance expectations by increasing their supply chain’s flexibility in key areas. (1:20)
• Definitions and applications of terminology associated with this process, such as “trust boundaries” and “supply chain elasticity.” (5:10)
• Concerns of increased complexity associated with supply chain elasticity. (8:30)
• Methods to assess geopolitical risks’ potential impacts on a supply chain. (13:18)
• Recommendations for CSCOs seeking to increase their supply chain’s elasticity. (16:35)

In this episode of the Supply Chain Podcast, host Lindsay Azim and guest Pierfrancesco (Pier) Manenti, research vice president for the Gartner supply chain strategy team, discuss findings from Supply Chain Executive Report: Empowering Growth Through Geopolitically Elastic Supply Chains.

As countries cloister their markets in response to various geopolitical tensions, accessing a global marketplace is becoming harder for CSCOs. Lindsay and Pier explore how “supply chain elasticity,” a concept explored in the Executive Report, can help CSCOs alleviate these market access issues while driving growth. The discussion includes key definitions and actions, success stories from organizations already applying these principles and recommendations for CSCOs to improve elasticity within their own supply chains.

Pierfrancesco (Pier) Manenti is research vice president for the Gartner supply chain strategy team. Pier provides insights and advisory support to chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) and heads of strategy of global manufacturing and retail corporations, especially with regards to future trends and key challenges affecting end-to-end supply chain strategy. He focuses on strategic transformation, digitalization, agility and design for profitability.

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