@davefood

David Food · Prophet to the marketplace, strategist to the church. Author of 5 books on Kingdom leadership & business. Books ↓

 Egham, London, UK
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Joined March 2008
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: I wonder - what do you think? linkedin.com/pulse/i-wonder-… via @LinkedIn

I wonder - what do you think?

I was sitting at the far end of a long walnut table in a top floor office in Shepperton when I realised I had stopped listening. Not to the sales director walking us through a forecast nobody liked,...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Good Planners know their data linkedin.com/pulse/good-plan… via @LinkedIn

Good Planners know their data

Every Monday morning, somewhere in Britain, a planner opens a dashboard showing many highlighted red cells. Most of them will be noise.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The planner you hire is the plan you get linkedin.com/pulse/planner-y… via @LinkedIn

The planner you hire is the plan you get

I have sat in many planning meetings over the years, and I can usually tell within ten minutes whether the business has a planning problem or a people problem. Nine times out of ten it is the latter,...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Adopted to Hear linkedin.com/pulse/adopted-h… via @LinkedIn

Adopted to Hear

We can find ourselves at a point where we stop trying to earn a place at the table and realise we were seated there before we ever arrived. That moment is the doorway into everything prophetic,...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Turn uncertainty into opportunity and act now. linkedin.com/pulse/turn-unce… via @LinkedIn

Turn uncertainty into opportunity and act now.

It sounds simple. It isn’t.

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You are not your diagnosis

I was halfway through a course of radiotherapy when a friend took me for coffee. I could see the questions lined up behind his eyes.

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Lead time are you giving it enough attention

For most of my career, lead time sat quietly in the background of planning conversations. It was a number in the system, usually set when a supplier was first onboarded and rarely touched again.

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Highlights from the Gartner Planning Summit

I've just come out of two days at the InterContinental at the O2 for the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit, and I'm still thinking about it. The theme this year was "Plan With Insight.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Hearing Heaven on a Monday Morning linkedin.com/pulse/hearing-h… via @LinkedIn

Hearing Heaven on a Monday Morning

I have sat with many business owners and entrepreneurs who love Jesus deeply yet quietly wonder whether the prophetic has anything to do with Monday morning. They are comfortable hearing a word in a...

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Putting structural flexibility into your Supply Chain plans

Historically, I would suggest that demand would be broadly predictable, supply would be broadly reliable, and the job of planning was to squeeze cost out of the system by running it as lean as...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: SandOP just an expensive meeting? linkedin.com/pulse/sop-just-… via @LinkedIn

S&OP, just an expensive meeting?

S&OP processes do not fail because of poor data or clunky software. They fail because the person who ultimately owns the business is not in the room.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Prophetic Accountability linkedin.com/pulse/prophetic… via @LinkedIn

Prophetic Accountability

Over thirty years of working alongside church leaders and business executives, I have noticed something that rarely makes it onto a board or eldership agenda. We are often very good at receiving...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: AI and Supply Chain Planning linkedin.com/pulse/ai-supply… via @LinkedIn

AI and Supply Chain Planning

AI is genuinely changing supply chain planning. But it is doing so unevenly, and mostly where organisations have already done the unglamorous groundwork, clean master data, sensible planning hierar...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Prophetic Parenting linkedin.com/pulse/prophetic… via @LinkedIn

Prophetic Parenting

There is a hunger in the workplace today that most job descriptions never mention. Beneath the targets and the appraisals, men and women are longing for someone to see what is in them before they can...

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There is a Joseph or Daniel anointing on your life, and this is your permission to stop hiding it. 📘 Grab my book Prophetic Exchange on Amazon: a.co/d/9PumVy4 #KingdomLeadership #BusinessWithGod #PropheticVoice #MarketplaceMinistry #PropheticExchange
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Stillness never appears on its own. Jesus formed it with intention and so must we if we want to live shaped by His voice rather than pressure. #forgedinstillness #christshabits #livelikejesus 👉 Grab your copy today a.co/d/8YEAAw6
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What shapes your supply chain strategy? linkedin.com/pulse/what-shap… via @LinkedIn

What shapes your supply chain strategy?

Some Supply Chain teams have plans assuming nothing will ever go wrong. Their forecasts are clean, their lead times are nominal, and their contingency slide, if it exists at all, is buried at the...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Building trust before speaking truth linkedin.com/pulse/building-… via @LinkedIn

Building trust before speaking truth

There is a moment in the book of Acts where prophets travel down from Jerusalem to Antioch and, in the middle of ordinary life, one of them, called Agabus, stands up and speaks a word about a coming...

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Sabbath wasn’t a restriction for Jesus; it was a gift. He lived from rest, not exhaustion. We become more like Him when we honour the same rhythm. Get Forged in Stillness on Amazon : a.co/d/3ectG51
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