A lack of talent, technology issues and geopolitical risks are amongst procurement leaders’ main business concerns, according to Deloitte's fourth annual global chief procurement officer (CPO) survey.

In less than a decade, the mobile internet revolution has overtaken the digital revolution and is still accelerating. Mobile penetration is increasing, the costs of access and devices are coming down, and more and more people in both developed and developing economies are using the mobile internet as their first - and often their only - means of going online. Let's look at the phenomenon in Europe.

There's an app for that. That's long been the joke amongst smartphone toting consumers. More and more, the same can be said for supply chain management and logistics tasks.

E-commerce, the ever-present risk of supply disruptions, volatile and unpredictable consumer demand - they're all combining to create global supply chains with more complexity than ever before. Valerie Bonebrake, senior vice president of Tompkins International, describes the challenge, and offers some solutions.

A lot of security processes failed during the breach of Target's systems during last year's holiday season, but one surprising revelation was that the retailer actually did receive security alerts about the malware in its system. Yet because the security team was bombarded with alerts - estimated at hundreds per day - it couldn't adequately prioritize them.