Book excerpt: Are companies able to see whether the value is generated/created and where is migrating? Are you making the most of social applications to enhance the relationship with customers? Does organization innovativeness enable effective responses to supply chain disruptions? Does your supply chain have differentiating capabilities that lead to market leadership? Have organizational policies and procedures been updated to support the mHealth program? How can units work differently - and work together differently - in a more connected way? What lead time percentage does it take for demand changes to reach second tier suppliers? Where are the key investment areas that will maximize the contribution to the new vision? Who are the main influencers driving your organization to become a more digital business? Will network service be available consistently in the local environment of the end user? This Supply Chain IT Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Supply Chain IT challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems. Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain IT investments work better. This Supply Chain IT All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Supply Chain IT Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Supply Chain IT maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain IT improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: Diagnose Supply Chain IT projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices. Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals. Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain IT and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines. Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Supply Chain IT Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain IT areas need attention. Your purchase includes access to the Supply Chain IT self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.