Michael Hugos

Thinker, Speaker, Doer

Michael Hugos is top future trends keynote speaker, an award-winning chief information officer, and author of several business books including the best selling book on supply chains worldwide. He is a Co-Founder at SCM Globe which provides cloud-based supply chain modeling and simulation applications for use in education, training, and business.

Michael Hugos Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
Illinois, USA

Michael Hugos Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
Illinois, USA

Why Michael Hugos

The pace of technical change and its resulting impacts on business, society and the environment call for a dramatically new context to make sense of what is happening. Merely examining each new trend, and discussing the next gee-whiz technology that appears on the scene provides few answers to the pressing challenges we face – such as finding jobs for millions of people entering the workforce each year and switching to renewable sources of energy and sustainable methods of production. Get a clear big picture context to appreciate the power and the possibilities opening up as new waves of technology build upon the ones that came before
Everybody talks about being lean and agile, but nobody is certain about what it actually means. Get a clear understanding of what it means for companies and supply chains to be agile and responsive. See pragmatic examples for combining people, process and technology to achieve agility and deliver competitive advantage to your business.
Explore the power of interactive simulations, virtual worlds and real-time feedback as tools to help people and companies find their way and thrive in a world that is increasingly volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous. It a world where technology is available to all, the ability to learn faster and make better decisions from moment to moment is the only sustainable path to success for companies and nations in this always-on world.

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Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Internet of Things (IoT) and Emergence of a Planetary Cerebral Cortex

The rapid spread of cloud computing, wireless broadband networks, IoT, and smartphones has created the infrastructure that enables real-time connectivity for billions of people and billions of things all around the world. Social media changed the way companies and customers ...

The rapid spread of cloud computing, wireless broadband networks, IoT, and smartphones has created the infrastructure that enables real-time connectivity for billions of people and billions of things all around the world. Social media changed the way companies and customers interact, now IoT is changing the way companies deliver products and services. And in the process something is emerging that is greater than the sum of its parts. Just as our bodies are composed of billions of individual cells talking to each other; something new is emerging as billions of us start talking with each other and with the billions of things we use. Get ready for a new relationship with Mother Earth.

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Supply Chains for the Real-Time Economy [Agile, Responsive and Robust]

Supply chains have gone from poor cousin to high strategy in many companies. As the relatively stable and predictable economy of the last century recedes and is replaced by an ever more fast-paced and unpredictable economy, the role of supply chains is central to a company’s...

Supply chains have gone from poor cousin to high strategy in many companies. As the relatively stable and predictable economy of the last century recedes and is replaced by an ever more fast-paced and unpredictable economy, the role of supply chains is central to a company’s ability to survive and thrive. Apple is an example of what responsive supply chains can do to deliver innovation and competitive advantage. Look at Amazon’s move into air freight and same day delivery, and the spread of 3D printing and Uber. These are all examples of using real-time supply chains to create agile businesses that respond and adjust moment to moment as situations change. That’s how companies succeed in the real-time economy.

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How IoT, Real-Time Visibility and Massively Multiplayer Online Games can Save Us and the Planet

As we push up against the limits of what our world’s ecosystems can handle, our actions and their results follow each other ever more closely, with consequences that are ever more severe when things go wrong. How do we learn to balance our actions with what our planet can ...

As we push up against the limits of what our world’s ecosystems can handle, our actions and their results follow each other ever more closely, with consequences that are ever more severe when things go wrong. How do we learn to balance our actions with what our planet can sustain? Perhaps the answer is creative use of technology and practices already available and rapidly spreading to every part of the globe. Perhaps we can learn by using real-time simulations to explore different approaches to economic, social and ecological problems. And when we find what works best in simulations, maybe we can make it happen in the real world by including billions of people in goal-seeking feedback loops driven by transparent rules and rewards (AKA massively multiplayer online games).

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About Keynote Speaker Michael Hugos

Michael Hugos is an award-winning chief information officer, and author of several business books including the best selling book on supply chains worldwide. He is a Co-Founder at SCM Globe which provides cloud-based supply chain modeling and simulation applications for use in education, training and business.

He spent six years as CIO of a national distribution organization where he developed a suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company’s operations and revenue model. For this work he twice won the CIO 100 Award for resourcefulness and boldness, the InformationWeek 500 Award for innovation and the Computerworld Premier 100 Award for career achievement.

Michael Hugos contributes to business and technology publications such as Forbes, Computerworld and CIO. He has authored eight books including the popular Essentials of Supply Chain Management, reported by Amazon as the best selling supply chain book worldwide since 2004. He has spoken at conferences and taught seminars in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

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Michael Hugos combines techniques from lean business startups with agile software development and game theory to create elegant solutions to complex problems. His focus is in supply chains, business intelligence and agile enterprise architecture. He has mentored managers and development teams in companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks Coffee, Aramark Healthcare and U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command as well as numerous smaller companies.

He earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Testimonials

“Michael Hugos delivers the next evolution of business strategy.He gives leaders a new model of business agility that balances the need for efficiency with the ability to adapt to marketplace and customer expectations.”

John Babiarz

Group President, Aramark Healthcare

“We brought Michael and his team in to help drive the delivery of a mission critical IT and business project that needed to be completed in less than 45 days. Through his 30-Day Blitz methodology and razor like focus we were able to pull it off. Michael’s experience and facilitation made the difference and brought clarity and creativity into the solution.”

Robert Meshew

General Manager Microsoft Stores & eCommerce Supply Chain

“I engaged Michael as an executive speaker and consultant for many years while I was at Computerworld / IDG and I highly recommend him in this role. From the convergence of business agility and IT to cloud computing, this is the guest speaker you want to have for analysis and discussion.”

Ron Milton

Vice President/General Manager, Global Services, The Attachmate Group