Supply ChAInge

Episode Summary: In this episode, Chris Pitre of Softway makes the case that AI transformation is a leadership and culture journey, not a tools journey. Fear, loss of control, and concerns about being replaced only get resolved when leaders lead with vulnerability, curiosity, and psychological safety. Before AI can take root and scale, Chris argues, you have to till the soil of culture: trust, inc...

AI will not fix a broken supply chain and it requires committed leadership. In this solo episode, Derek Aranda argues that autonomy demands a fundamentally different kind of leader, one who treats AI as a continuous journey rather than a project with a finish line. Using lean as both a blueprint and a warning, he lays out the two strategic choices every leader has to make, the four things AI force...

What does it actually mean for a supply chain to run itself? Season 1 opens by defining the thing everyone is racing toward before agreeing on what it is. Derek lays out a five- level pyramid, from automation to analytics to cognitive to agentic to autonomous, so leaders can locate where they really are today and see how big the next leap is. No alphabet soup of technical terms and no vendor roadm...