Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain - Africa

Continuing and Professional Executive Training Workshop
2021-09-28 - 2021-10-21
Upgrade your professional skills in risk management, expand your expertise in developing and executing organizational resilience strategies in complex and uncertain procurement, and supply chains environments.
This three-day training workshop is for procurement and supply chain practitioners and professionals working for governmental and non-governmental entities.

Workshop Dates

Dates
Location
Venue

28th – 30th September, 2021
Kumasi
KNUST

19th – 21st October, 2021
Takoradi
Raybow Hotel

Investment

Your investment in this three-day workshop is only GH¢2,000.00 per person. This investment will help pay for your fees, training materials, a buffet lunch and two snack breaks each day, and a certificate of participation.

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NB: Kindly complete your registration by making full payments on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
Meet your facilitators

Dr Kwadwo Koduah Owusu, Head, Procurement and Supply Management Unit, NACP, Ghana Health Service
Mr Atoapem Frimpong Barimah, Regional Inventory, Logistics and Warehouse Governance Manager, Newmont Gold Corporation

PARTNERSHIP COORDINATION COMMITTEE (PCC) MEETING
2021-09-28 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
Kindly note that CARISCA’s Partnership Coordination Committee (PCC) will meet on the 28th of September 2021 to help coordinate CARISCA’s activities with partner organizations, stakeholders, and individuals to create and sustain long-term relationships that support innovative projects that solve local, regional, and national supply chain challenges.
Date: 28th September 2021
Venue: Online via Zoom
Meeting ID: 92742460314

Distinguished Supply Chain Executive Lecture 3
2021-10-01 15:00 - 17:00
Please join us for CARISCA’s 3rd Distinguished Supply Chain Executive Lecture series as CARISCA’S Center Director, Prof Nathaniel Boso moderates a live webinar on the topic; “How to turn your thesis or dissertation into peer-reviewed publications “ on Friday, October 1, 2021, at 3 p.m. GMT (8 a.m. PDT).
Guest Speaker
Prof Francis K. Andoh- Baidoo is the Guest Speaker for this event. He is an international faculty fellow and associate professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.
ZOOM LINK
This is an online event. Join us through this link
Meeting ID: 94489387024

Research Capacity-Building Workshop
2021-10-27 - 2021-10-28
Please join us for our two-day Research Capacity Building Workshop for KNUST Faculty and PhD candidates from Wednesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 28, 2021, from 2–5 pm GMT/7–10 am MST.
Join us online on :https://carisca-knust-edu-gh.zoom.us/j/91953008793 or in-person at Amono-Neizer Conference Room, KNUST-Kumasi.
Here’s what will be covered
The goal of this workshop is to cover multiple theories under an overarching theoretic perspective. We will touch on complex adaptive systems theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics, resource-based view, agency theory, triads and structural hole concept, buyer-supplier embeddedness, social capital theory, and theory of nexus suppliers. The overarching theoretic perspective is provided by social network analysis. Rather than focusing on theories themselves, we will consider how these theories and theoretical perspectives have been applied in one person’s research.
Timetable

Day`
Topic

27th October 2021
Theories in Supply Chain Management

28th October 2021
Applying Relevant theories to CARISCA Research Projects

Supply Chain Action Network (SCAN) Meeting: Managing Global Supply Chain Disruptions: An African Perspective
2021-11-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Amono-Neizer Conference Room, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 2-3:30 pm GMT
Featuring Atoapem Frimpong Barimah
Regional Manager – SCI, Materials, Freight & Warehouse Governance
Newmont Ghana Gold Limited
Hybrid meeting: virtual and in-person registration available, space is limited

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Distinguished Lecture Series
2021-12-02
Distinguished Lecture Series
Join CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series on (1) Contemporary Research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management and (2) What leading Journals like JSCM, look for in a submission on Thursday, December 2, 2021, 6-7 pm GMT. This lecture will feature Professor Mark Pagell, PhD of University College Dublin.

Stakeholder Affinity Group Meeting in Accra: Healthcare
2022-02-01 09:00 - 15:00 | FIESTA ROYALE HOTEL, ACCRA
Join us for our first Healthcare Supply Chains Affinity Group Meeting on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, at the Fiesta Royale Hotel, Accra, (9:00 a.m – 3:00 p.m GMT). This forum will explore the current health SCM issues/practices and identify problems that affect the success of supply chain initiatives in the healthcare industry.
The topic for discussion at this meeting is Strengthening Health Supply Chains in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities for Drugs in the Top Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. Register online to join this event.

Academic Board Meeting
2022-02-23
CARISCA will host an Academic Board Meeting on February 23, 2022.

Distinguished Lecture Series with Prof Tobias Schoenherr
2022-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 | https://carisca-knust-edu-gh.zoom.us/j/95547847143
Join Us for CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
The topic for this Lecture “Best Practices for Publishing: Lessons Learned and the IJOPM Perspective” will be delivered by Prof Tobias Schoenherr, Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management from Michigan State University.

Meet the Speaker

Tobias Schoenherr is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Professor in Purchasing and Supply Management at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. Recently ranked to be among the Top 10 thought leaders worldwide in supply chain management research, he is an award-winning scholar and teacher focusing on the area of sourcing, with a particular interest in buyer-supplier relationships.

Having obtained his Ph.D. from Indiana University in Operations Management and Decision Sciences, he has been teaching at numerous universities, both domestically and internationally. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles that appeared in outlets such as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Marketing Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Journal of Business Logistics.

He is serving as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management.

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Call for Papers: 2022 Supply Chain Research Summit
2022-02-28 08:00 - 17:00
Call for papers open now: Share your expertise at the 2022 Summit
Submissions are due by Monday, February 28, 2022

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Partnership Coordination Committee (PCC) Meeting
2022-03-29

Call for applications: PhD Dissertation Award
2022-04-04

CARISCA Advisory Board Meeting
2022-04-13

Distinguished Lecture Series
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:30
The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa hosts Distinguished Lecture Series and invite scholars and supply chain practitioners to deliver in-depth presentations to faculty and students of KNUST and other stakeholders.
The series aims at providing attendees with the opportunity to learn about best practices, new techniques and ideas, and from exemplary research activities and case studies.
Join us for our next lecture in April 21, 2022. The title for this lecture is Exploring AI capabilities in operations management: going from a bibliometic analysis to empirical studies.
Speaker: Dr Samuel Fosso Wamba | Toulouse Business School, France
Time: 5:00pm GMT
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Supply Chain Action Network Meeting
2022-04-26 14:00 - 17:00
Supply Chain Action Network (SCAN) Meeting
Supply Chain Implications of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on Africa
How will the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) affect your supply chains? Don’t miss the discussion at CARISCA’s upcoming event.
CARISCA’s Supply Chain Action Network (SCAN) engages supply chain stakeholders in Ghana and across Africa to discuss current topics, trends, opportunities and challenges for managing African supply chains. The goal is to create a strong network of policymaking, private sector and civil society organizations to strengthen supply chain research, education and facilitate knowledge transfer.
At our next SCAN meeting, you will participate in a high-level discussion about the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), an Africa-wide trade agreement, and its implications for integrating African businesses into global supply chains. The World Bank estimates AfCFTA has the potential to lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty, boost wages by 10 percent and increase intra-African exports by 81 percent.
Join us to

Learn about AfCFTA and how it can help African companies boost intracontinental and global exports
Understand the current challenges to full implementation
Interact with supply chain experts
Network with logistics, procurement and supply chain colleagues

This meeting will feature presentations from Mr. Emmanuel K. Bensah Jr., Deputy Executive Director–AfCFTA Policy Network, and Professor Jonathan Annan, Associate Professor in Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain at the Strathmore University Business School, Kenya.
This event is free of charge – register today! We look forward to seeing you there.
Questions? Please contact Ms. Elsie Konadu Addae, the Centre Administrator, at ekaddae@carisca.knust.edu.gh or +233265654718.
SPEAKERS’ PROFILES
Emmanuel K. Bensah Jr

Emmanuel K. Bensah is Deputy Executive Director of AfCFTA Policy Network, with responsibility for African Union (AU) Policy Programming; Outreach and Partnerships. He is also an ECOWAS and AU Policy Analyst with cumulative experience in the African Union, ECOWAS, UNECA, OECD and Sahel West Africa Club. He has been a member of the Agenda 2063 Media Network since 2017 and the African Peer Review Mechanism Communicator’s Network since May 2019.
Bensah has an M.A. in International Politics from the renowned Brussels-based Centre Européen de Récherche Internationales et Stratégiques and has UN certification in Regional Trade (2011); Continental Free Trade Area (2012); and acquired a UNITAR/ECOWAS certificate on Multilateral Trade Negotiations.
Bensah was the first journalist to interview Chief Technical Advisor of the AfCFTA Negotiations Prudence Sebahizi on what was then CFTA. He has moderated at international conferences, including AU’s Regional Youth Consultation in Abuja; NEPAD’s Africa Environment Partnership Programme (AEPP) in Nairobi; and in Dakar, where he moderated a session on “Institutional Architecture of the African Continental Free Trade Area” (AfCFTA) at a Stakeholder’s Forum for Private Sector and Civil Society. In 2019, He was asked to moderate the Second Edition of the Arusha Symposium, which focused on AfCFTA and the AU’s Free Movement of People Protocol.

Professor Jonathan Annan

Professor Jonathan Annan is an Associate Professor of Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the prestigious Strathmore University Business School in Nairobi, Kenya. His research focuses on the interface between Transport Operations, Logistics, Project Management, Sustainability and Supply Chain Management. His research has won multiple awards including the 2017 Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Best Conference paper. Jonathan has published in leading scholarly journals such as the International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Business Research, Psychology and Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management and Thunderbird International Business Review.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Master’s Degree in Industrial Management and a Doctor of Philosophy in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Institute of Project Management Professionals (IPMP) and a Distinguished Fellow Member of IPMP. He is also a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT, UK). Professor Annan has authored four books on Supply Chain and has consulted for several companies in Ghana and Kenya on Transportation, Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Management policies.
Professor Annan is currently the Programme Lead for Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain and Operations Management at Strathmore University Business School. He has represented Strathmore University on National Dialogues in Kenya. He has been a speaker for various events organized by the Kenya Institute of Supply Management, Zetova, Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development and many others.

Distinguished Lecture Series with Veronica Villena
2022-06-16 17:00 - 19:00
The Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa hosts Distinguished Lecture Series and invite scholars and supply chain practitioners to deliver in-depth presentations to faculty and students of KNUST and other stakeholders. The series aims at providing attendees with the opportunity to learn about best practices, new techniques and ideas, and from exemplary research activities and case studies.
Join Us for CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
The topic for this Lecture “Do Sustainability and Resilience Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Pennsylvania Dairy Farmers” will be delivered by Veronica Villena, Associate Professor, W.P Carey School of Business – Arizona State University.
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Meet the Speaker

Veronica Villena is an associate professor of supply chain management at the W.P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.
Her research focuses on how companies engage their global supplier network to achieve economic, environmental and social outcomes. She has worked with leading sustainability companies in the automotive, electronics, consumer product, pharmaceutical, fashion and food sectors on how they can diffuse their environmental and labor practices to their first-, second-and third-tier suppliers. Her research explores the challenges companies face in cascading their environmental and labor requirements to these upstream suppliers while informing the reasons why suppliers do not fulfill such requirements. She has done extensive grounded research in several emerging/developing countries and worked with industry organizations and NGOs to better understand the environmental and labor conditions in supplier factories.
She won the 2019 Jack Meredith Best Paper award at the Journal of Operations Management and the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management (OSCM division) in 2016 and 2020. Her work has been published in a variety of prestigious journals, including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Decision Sciences. She also publishes in managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review and Supply Chain Management Review. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management and a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. Villena’s research papers can be accessed at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Veronica_Villena.

2022 Paper Development Workshop - Pre-Conference Workshop
2022-06-27 09:00 - 16:00
If you are faculty or a senior doctoral candidate in a higher education institution (HEI) in Africa, CARISCA invites you to participate in the special Paper Development Workshop, a pre-conference session of our Annual Supply Chain Research Summit. The workshop will be held in person at KNUST on Monday, June 27, 2022, 9 am – 4 pm GMT.
The number of seats for the program is limited. To be eligible, you must be a faculty or senior doctoral student in an African HEI, register for the conference, have a complete or near-complete research paper, and commit to attending the summit in person. The same paper may or may not be submitted for presentation at the main Summit.
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To be considered for the 2022 CARISCA Paper Development Workshop, please apply online by Friday, April 1, 2022.
Accepted participants will be notified by May 2, 2022. If you have questions, please email Professor Adegoke Oke at Adegoke.Oke@asu.edu.
The workshop is fully supported by the Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Supply Chain – Africa (CARISCA); there is no cost to attendees.

CARISCA'S 2022 Supply Chain Research Summit
2022-06-28 - 2022-06-30 | KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
The Second Annual Supply Chain Research Summit is scheduled for June 28-30, 2022.
The summit will be a hybrid event featuring in-person and virtual presentations. In-person sessions will be held in Ghana at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi; virtual sessions will be held via Zoom.

Call for papers open now: Share your expertise at the 2022 Summit
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CARISCA Hackathon- Breeding and Hatching Supply Chain Innovations Beyond Borders
2022-07-08 - 2022-07-09
CARISCA INNOVATION LAB HACKATHON COMPETITION PLAN
The CARISCA Innovation Lab has innovation as one of its pillars. A hackathon is a tool that can be used to drive sustained innovation and crowdsource solutions to address real-life business problems and social issues.
Why a hackathon?
Currently, the lab is searching for innovative ideas and projects that are student engineered to help drive the lab into its vision as a hub for supply chain innovation and creativity in Ghana, West Africa, and beyond. Hackathons have some clear advantages over traditional methods of hunting for ideas and talents. They are inclusive, agile, and promote multidisciplinary collaboration. They have shorter innovation cycles and are better suited for addressing fast-changing consumer demands.
TARGET AUDIENCE / PARTICIPANTS
Undergraduate Students, Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Postgraduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science And Technology
Registration is free for participants
Time and Date
8th – 9th July 2022
VENUE
CARISCA Innovations Lab, KNUST
DURATION
It’s going to be a 2-day Hackathon
REGISTRATIONS
Participants would have to register online using the following link.
https://forms.gle/53zTYKnMquWCwgds7

CPD -Supply Chain Digitalisation
2022-08-30 - 2022-08-31
Learn to help fulfill customer needs and improve decision-making using existing and emerging digital technologies in our continuing professional development course, “Supply Chain Digitalisation,” Aug. 30-31.
Attend in-person in Adjirinagor, Accra, Ghana, or from anywhere via Zoom. Our innovative, practical and evidence-based CPD programs are for senior professionals who want to acquire new skills, network and improve their organization’s supply chain management.
Your investment in this two-day workshop is GH¢600.00 for in-person participation and GH¢300.00 for online Zoom.
This investment will cover your fees, training materials, a buffet lunch and two snack breaks each day, and a certificate of participation.

Register before August 23, https://wp.dev.ksbadesua.net/product/supply-chain-digitalization/

Distinguished Lecture Series with John Karani
2022-09-02 15:00 - 16:30
Join CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series with John Karani, president of the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM). The title is “The Journey Toward Supply Chain Management Professionalism: Lessons From the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management”
About the speaker
John Karani is the Chairman of the Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM).
Karani is a seasoned Pan-African Procurement; Supply Chain Professional with over 27 years’ experience in major blue-chip multinationals across Africa, 18 of them as Strategic Procurement Director with Coca-Cola Africa, covering 39 countries in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Karani is passionate about entrenching integrity and credibility in the Supply Chain Management Profession by ensuring that we “earn our seat at the decision-
making table” by developing and inspiring the next generation of professionals to
positively impact the role that Supply Chain Profession plays in Organizational
competitiveness, efficiency and effectiveness.
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To register in advance for this event, visit https://bit.ly/DLS092022

CARISCA Training Series
2022-09-22 16:00 - 18:00
Learn how to create quality research questions
If you’re an academic and would like to learn how to create quality research questions, join us September 22 for a virtual workshop on that topic.
Knowing how to create quality research questions is essential to reaching your objective for your study – and your career. Your research questions set the stage for your entire study. They determine your literature review. They guide your methodology. They shape how you analyze the results. They help you weave the story of your research when you share it with the public.
During the workshop, you’ll review and critique sample research questions. You will learn how to connect research questions to a story the research tells. You’ll also leave the workshop with a research question checklist to follow.
Bring your own research questions to work on during the session.
Workshop times:
4-6 p.m. GMT / 5-7 p.m. BST / 12-2 p.m. EDT / 9-11 a.m. MST
Register in advance

CPD - Quantification of Health Commodities: Forecasting and Supply Planning
2022-09-27 - 2022-09-28
What you will learn
This training workshop will allow participants to improve their forecasting and supply planning skills. Participants will learn to understand the data requirements, the key steps in quantification, and select the appropriate forecasting methodology and tools.
Objectives of the Workshop
This workshop will build the capacity of supply chain practitioners and service providers within the public and private sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, such as the Ministries of Health and their implementing agencies, hospitals, and other private sector practitioners engaged in the quantification of health commodities.
The workshop will also contribute to bridging existing capacity gaps within organizations and ensure the availability of competent human resources to support and strengthen quantification and the supply chain management system in general.
Who can participate in this training?
This training workshop is intended for procurement and supply chain practitioners and professionals working in the health sector and working for governmental and non-governmental entities, including:

Pharmacists
Pharmacist Technicians
Medical officers
Hospital procurement and supply managers
Tender committee members in the healthcare industry
Medical stores managers
Supply chain lecturers, researchers and students;
Suppliers and manufacturers of health commodities
Officers performing similar roles

Workshop Details

Dates
Location
Venue

September 27-28, 2022
Accra
Online
In-person: KNUST African Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management, Adjiringanor
Zoom

Investment
Your investment for the in-person two-day workshop is GH¢1000.00 per person. This investment will cover your fees, training materials, a buffet lunch and two snack breaks each day, and a certificate of participation.
The cost to attend virtually via Zoom is GH¢300.00 per person. Training materials and a certificate of participation will be provided electronically.
Discounts are available to organizations with multiple participants.
Register before September 20th https://wp.dev.ksbadesua.net/product/quantification-of-health-commodities/

Distinguished Lecture Series with Kevin Dooley
2022-10-20 17:00 - 18:30
Thursday, October 20, 2022 @ 10 a.m. MST/ 5 p.m. GMT

Speaker: Kevin Dooley|| Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

Title: Working with Industry on Supply Chain Sustainability Issues
Environmental and social issues are at the forefront of many organizations’ strategic plans. Given the significant industry needs and the rapid pace of change, now is an excellent time for academic researchers to engage industrial partners in supply chain sustainability research. This presentation will outline the topical research questions that define supply chain sustainability, and its unique dimensions of industrial engagement. Kevin will use The Sustainability Consortium as an example of how universities are well positioned to drive pre-competitive collaboration and innovation.
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2nd Quarter Logistics Managers Index Launch Webinar
2022-11-23

Supply Chain Action Network (SCAN) Meeting
2022-11-29
Supply Chain Financing: the Fintech and Traditional Banking Perspective

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. GMT
Attend in person at the Fiesta Royale Hotel in Accra, Ghana, or virtually via Zoom

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CARISCA’s Supply Chain Action Network (SCAN) engages supply chain stakeholders in Ghana and across Africa to discuss current topics, trends, opportunities and challenges for managing African supply chains. The goal is to create a strong network of policymaking, private sector and civil society organizations to strengthen supply chain research, education and facilitate knowledge transfer.
Join us Nov. 29 for the next SCAN meeting to discuss two perspectives on supply chain financing. Presenting the traditional banking perspective will be Raymond Denteh, team leader for Agribusiness and Financial Services for USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Resilience in Ghana. Presenting the fintech perspective will be Kwesi Korboe, chief executive officer of Ghana Incentive-based Risk-sharing System for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL).
Following the presentations and a lunch break, participants will discuss supply chain financing in breakout groups and then convene for a panel discussion.
Meet the presenters:

Raymond Denteh is an agribusiness business specialist, impact investment expert and a banker with experience in small- to middle- market investing and business development.
He also is a business development services specialist and value chains/inclusive business expert. He has rich knowledge in value chain analysis and development, fund management, market facilitation for poverty reduction, wealth creation, and capacity building.
Denteh has 20 years’ experience working across various industries, both in the private sector and international development. His key expertise is in corporate and market development advisory services, impact investment, value chain facilitation, project management and fund management.
Currently, Denteh is team lead for agribusiness and financial services for USAID’s Feed the Future Market Systems and Resilience (MSR) Activity, being implemented by ACDI VOCA in Ghana.

Kwesi Korboe has over the past 34 years managed and provided support to agribusiness enterprises and designed, managed and implemented agricultural projects for the Government of Ghana and related agencies, USAID and other international development organizations.
He is currently executive director/CEO of GIRSAL. He previously was a USAID embedded advisor to the Ministry of Food & Agriculture.
Korboe has worked for several international organizations and local companies in senior management positions. He has served and currently serves on several boards for both agribusinesses and agricultural finance institutions.
Korboe has a master’s degree in economic policy management, a post-graduate diploma in agriculture administration, and a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, all from the University of Ghana, Legon.

Distinguished Lecture Series with Denis Wolowiecki
2022-12-08
Thinking Beyond Procurement
Denis Wolowiecki
Executive Managing Director, CAPS Research
Register: https://bit.ly/DLS122022
Speaker Biography:
Denis M. Wolowiecki is executive managing director of CAPS Research, a nonprofit research center for supply management leaders. He has more than 25 years of cross-industry supply management experience as an executive, as well as the savvy of consultancies and a deep understanding of driving transformational improvements.
Prior to joining CAPS, Wolowiecki held executive supply chain and sourcing positions with Vitalant, Husqvarna Group, Aleris International, Inc., and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. He also offers more than a decade of supply chain consulting knowledge, having worked with Accenture and KPMG following initial career experiences as an aerospace systems engineer.
Wolowiecki holds an MBA focused in operations and international business from Kent State University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Ohio Northern University.

CARISCA Training Series - Writing for News Outlets
2023-01-24
About the event:
Knowing how to write for nonacademic audiences is a key skill for researchers who want to have an impact beyond professional journals. Industry, institutions, policymakers, the general public and other stakeholders need research findings communicated in simple terms to aid them in decision-making.
Being able to appeal to a larger audience beyond the academic community has other benefits as well. Representing your own research for general readers is the best way to clarify any controversies around your work. Researchers who are skilled at translating their work for a lay audience tend to gain research funds and consultancy opportunities, establish an online presence and increase their number of citations.
In this workshop, you will learn the nuances involved in writing for new outlets as one avenue for making your research relevant to non-academics, especially within the African context. The training will cover how to craft your article title, opening paragraph, the main body, conclusion and, most importantly, the language.

About the presenter:

Seth Krampah is a financial and economic journalist. He is currently the regional editor and manager of Business & Financial Times newspaper, Ghana’s leading provider of business, financial and economic information. Krampah is in charge of the Ashanti, Bono & Ahafo Regions.
He holds a diploma in communication studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and information studies from the University of Ghana and a Master of Science in marketing from Kwame Nkrumah University Science & Technology.
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Distinguished Lecture Series
2023-02-09 17:00 - 18:30
Seaports and African Trade: the Role of Ports in Africa’s Economic Growth
Africa’s port infrastructure presents both challenges and opportunities for the development of trade. Among the key challenges is congestion, which was an issue on the continent long before the COVID-19 era. Another is the need for investment and technological advances to support mega shipping vessels.
On Feb. 9, Frank Ojadi from the Lagos Business School faculty will talk about the latest paradigm shifts in ports globally and the role ports are now playing to enhance trade. He will address why ports in other areas of the world play a much more important role than they do in Africa.
In his presentation, part of CARISCA’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Ojadi will first look at the fundamentals and history of port development in Africa. He will cover the early growth period and the role ports have traditionally played in African trade. He also will offer insights with respect to colonial-era port development on the continent.
Ojadi will look at the challenges African ports need to overcome to make supply chains on the continent more efficient. This issue is especially urgent considering the rollout of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is hindered by current port infrastructure.
Other key questions the presentation will address include: How can African ports help support regional growth? How can the proper development of African ports support the hinterland regions? How can sustainability be addressed through port infrastructure?
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From the editor’s perspective: Writing for non-academic audiences
2023-02-21 16:00 - 18:00
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Knowing how to write for nonacademic audiences is a key skill for researchers who want to have an impact beyond professional journals. Industry, institutions, policymakers, the general public and other stakeholders need research findings communicated in simple terms to aid them in decision making.
Being able to appeal to a larger audience beyond the academic community has other benefits as well. Researchers who are skilled at translating their work for a lay audience tend to gain research funds and consultancy opportunities, establish an online presence and increase their number of citations.
Representing your own research for general readers also is the best way to clarify any controversies around your work.
This training on how to write for a non-academic audience will cover the kind of information that is useful for practitioners, how to structure a non-academic article and keeping an article interesting for practitioner readers.
Key questions the training will answer include:

What is the typical structure of a non-academic article?
What do editors look for in this type of writing?
How does this type of writing differ from an academic paper?
How important are graphs and other visual elements and how should they be used?
What findings are of interest to practitioners as opposed to academics?

About the presenter:

Bob Trebilcock has been a magazine writer and editor since 1980. His work has appeared in magazines as diverse as Sports Illustrated and Reader’s Digest. For nearly 20 years, he was a consumer and personal finance writer for Good Housekeeping magazine, as well as Yahoo Finance and CBS MoneyWatch.
He has covered the materials handling and supply chain management fields for nearly 40 years, serving as the executive editor of Modern Materials Handling since 2009 and the editorial director of Supply Chain Management Review from 2013 to 2022. He is also responsible for producing the NextGen Supply Chain Conference, an annual event focused on emerging technologies for senior level supply chain managers.
