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Dr. Wayhan provides words of encouragement to students during Orientation.
OUR VISION
To educate, train and develop the best supply chain management (SCM) students and junior executives in the world.
OUR MISSION
To fundamentally transform SCM student education at major Universities in the United State and beyond, as well as to substantially enhance SCM junior executive training globally.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Erum Kader and Cody Mikosh presenting during the finals of the Schlumberger Strategic Sourcing Competition. Their team went on to be crowned the inaugural grand champions of the competition.
EDUCATION
The philosophy undergirding the Sourcing and Procurement Organization (SPO) Educational Enrichment Program (EEP) is that world-class SCM education and training cannot rely exclusively on collegiate or industry curriculum, no matter how exemplary. The problem is that SCM education and training relies primarily on rote memorization of course lecture material, with subsequent multiple-choice exams to assess competency. The Chinese philosopher Confucius called this educational model into question more than 2,500 years ago, when he argued, “when I hear, I forget.” Modern educational research has supported this insight, determining that most of this memorized material dissipates within a week of the exam. Particularly with technical disciplines like SCM, it is far better to embrace Confucius’ final learning maxim: “but when I do, I understand,” which is foundational to the experiential learning model embraced by SPO.
TRAINING
Training and develop of young SCM executives, much like the education of SCM students, must incorporate experiential learning activities into the course curriculum to adequately demonstrate practical (not just theoretical) competence in a specific subject area. Every executive course offered by SPO will have practical elements to ground SCM theory into practical reality. The focus of the executive training courses offered by SPO is on junior executives with ten or fewer years of SCM experience in industry. Many of these junior executives may find themselves promoted into supply chain roles by their companies with very limited experience in SCM and no formal education in the subject area.
The Humphrey Group instructor Dan Dumsha educating SPO EEP students from Cohorts #4 & #5 during their industry seminar on Executive Presence, generously hosted by Shawcor and our Executive Council member Stewart Wilson (back right).
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