Susan Fourtané is a freelance journalist and writer who traveled extensively, lived and worked in different countries before finding her home in Finland where she resides today.
Susan researches and writes about a wide variety of topics of her knowledge and interest. Her line of work goes from Arts and the environment to Technology, eHealth and GreenTech, from Fiction to Experimental Philosophy and Philosophy in Business, from Experimental Fiction to Creative Non-Fiction, from Teaching to Virtual Worlds. Susan writes extensively about EMRs and Healthcare. She lives the dream of life as an out-of-the-box thinker.
Susan writes about the art scene and other forms of the arts and culture in Finland for the Helsinki Times. Susan is also a ThinkerNet writer at Internet Evolution, the macrosite for news, analysis and opinion about the future of the Internet. Her articles about Greentech and Cleantech can be found at World Education Network.She contributes with news articles at All Voices. Some of her work is also published at Best Thinking.
Following her passion for Epistemiology, Metaphysics, Ethics and Aesthetics, Susan studies Philosophy at the University of London. She is also writing a book which central theme is Fractals.
Susan can be reached at susan.fourtane@gmail.com and @SusanFourtane
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Join EBN contributor Jennifer Baljko on Thursday August 23, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. EST for a live chat on how electronic manufacturers in Thailand have shored up their supply chain to reduce the impact of future natural disasters.
Peter Drucker famously said "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window." Yet in the razor's-edge world of electronics—with a lean supply chain and just-in-time demands—the need to know the future is vital.
While no one really can accurately predict the future, we can take guidance from another Drucker saying which is the best way to predict the future is to create it.
You've heard the saying "the No. 1 supply chain risk is your people." That hasn't always been the case. But today's complex global supply chain requires a new type of multitalented employee. It's one who understands, finance, marketing, economics, is savvy with technology, graceful with relationships and can think analytically.
Where are these people? Are universities properly preparing the next generation supply chain professionals? How do train your existing workforce for these new, demanding positions?
Brian Fuller, editor-in-chief of EBN, will lead a 60-minute Avnet Velocity panel discussion that will ask and answer these and other questions swirling around today's supply-chain talent challenges.
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