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The Supply-Chain Council (SCC) has added more speakers to its roster of high-level executives and supply-chain experts who will attend the 2007 Supply-Chain Executive Retreat, Globalization: Getting It Right!, to be held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, in Boca Raton, Fla., from Jan. 22-24, 2007. The event focuses on the evolution of supply chain practices to effectively penetrate global markets, build global organizations and drive global supply.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and a regular analyst for ABC News, will be the keynote speaker at the annual retreat. He will discuss how countries such as China and India are finding successful ways to marry economics and technology with their own politics, culture and history. At the event, a Q&A session will be facilitated by Pat Byrne, global managing partner of Strategy and Business Architecture for Accenture, which is the primary sponsor of the event. It will help attendees to gain insight on how these factors will shape future global supply chains.

Since global organizational design hinges on building the right performance metrics and strategic relationships, the program includes several esteemed keynote speakers such as Robert S. Kaplan, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School, and an author of The Balanced scorecard: Translating Strategy to Action; and Gene Slowinski, Director of Strategic Alliance Research, Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Managing Partner, Alliance Management Group, and the author of Reinventing Corporate Growth.

The program's foundation are case studies from leading business executives on globalization including Steven Gold, Vice President of PepsiCo, who will talk on "Global Supply for Global Markets;" Nick Lahowchic, President and CEO of The Limited, will discuss "Managing Network Relationships in The Global Fashion Supply Chain;" and Patrice Knight, Senior Vice President, Procurement, for IBM will tackle "Redefining the Organization for Global Supply."

The retreat has become an integral offering from SCC that brings together senior executives and influential thinkers to discuss strategic trends and world events affecting all aspects of supply-chain management. The primary sponsor for the event is Accenture.

To register and to view the complete program, you can go here.