We caught up with Forum chair Joseph Sandor, the Hoagland-Metzler endowed professor of practice in supply management at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad School of Business, ahead of the event to get a taste of what’s to come.

The world is on fire. The financial markets are teetering. Confronted with this kind of environment, now would surely not be the appropriate time to boast about achievements? In fact, that kind of thinking is bogging down business and functions and we’re seeing that forward-thinking companies are prepared to shout about what they’re doing well.