Explores how firms can use time‐based strategies within their distribution operations. Exploratory results are presented detailing strategic distribution responses employed to meet competitive challenges and gain competitive advantages. These firms have proactively worked to make their operations more flexible and allow them to respond more quickly to customer requests. They have developed ca…
Our work discusses the results of a survey among French logistics service providers. In a highly competitive context characterized by "time compression", technological effort becomes a key variable and a means of differentiation between third-party logistics providers. The success of logistics outsourcing relationships is entrenched in the third-party’s technological ability to improve the su…
The purpose of this paper is to offer a new perspective for strategic foresight on the basis of nurture theory. Strategia Sapiens refers to the fact that strategic work needs to be foresight oriented, and foresight should be directly value driven.