Logistics & SCM

1. UVCA
in
L&SCM Scenario
Dr. V. G. Dhanakumar, Director
Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore
(An Autonomous Organization of the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GOI)

2. Navigation Skills for Thriving “UVCA”
Times
• UVCA (Zulu Language): “to wake up”
• Practice crucial for these times and essential
for learning, wisdom, compassion, and
creative adaptation
• Respond in “Adaptive” than “Mal-adaptive”

3. VUCA WORLD
• Does any of this resonate with you or
ABPM?
• How is your organisation fairing in a VUCA
world?
• Do you have any examples of best practice
in this context?

4. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity,
Ambiguity (VUCA)

9. • Nature and dynamics of change, dramatically escalating rate
and speed of change and associated risks of instability and flux.
• Rate of change is fast and does not fall in a predictable trend or
repeatable pattern.
Leadership challenge:
• Pace of change more rapid than our ability to respond;
• Requires accelerated decision making;
• Leaders left feeling overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and
unprepared to lead effectively.
Volatility

11. Unclear about the present situation and future outcomes, major
“disruptive” changes occur frequently.
Leadership challenge:
• Difficult to get to grips with what’s actually happening;
• Leaders: Act on insufficient and incomplete Information
• Leaders: Rely on what seems to have worked in the past.
Uncertainty

13. Large number of key decision factors and numerous difficult-to-understand
causes and mitigating factors involved in a problem.
Leadership challenge:
• Difficult to know where to drive change and to address the web of
interrelated issues and concerns;
• Leaders lack the time to reflect and think through the complexities and
end up acting too quickly;
• Leaders can be in danger of getting stuck in analysis paralysis and acting
too late
Complexity

15. • Lack of clarity about the meaning of an event. The causes and
the “who, what, where, when, how, and why” behind the
things that are happening are unclear and hard to ascertain.
Leadership challenge:
• Leaders are too far removed from the source and context of
events;
• Leaders act based on a limited understanding of events and
their meaning;
• Failure to understand the significance of events lead to
responding in inappropriate and ineffective ways.
Ambiguity