Episode 13 - Creating an Agile Culture

Developing an agile culture allows an organization to transform business processes, bolster innovation, and better serve its team members and constituents. Galen Smith, Digital Supply Chain Transformation Leader at IBM, joins us to discuss ways to implement organizational change, including creating an agile culture and empowering individuals across the supply chain to grow and develop their skills. Alongside our hosts, Smith outlines how IBM has engrained agile practices into their core foundations, why it’s important to do so, and how adopting this mindset can drive change in the field of supply chain.

Galen Smith is an accelerator of transformation in IBM's AI-enabled supply chain where she utilizes design thinking and cutting-edge technology to generate change. She is an IBM certified Consulting Supply Chain Management Professional who hold patents in the supply chain processes. Smith is a speaker at supply chain summits and conferences on AI, Blockchain, and Design Thinking and has published several articles on innovation and supply chain agility. She earned her MBA from Duke and her bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering for Georgia Institute of Technology.