Gartner is out with another of its famous "hype cycles," this one on supply chain strategy.
The Hype Cycles are meant to place various technologies - and apparently now strategies - in a given area on a sort of oddly shaped maturity curve.
As with all Hype Cycles, the supply chain strategy one tracks technologies/solutions from their rise up from introduction to maximum hype, after which comes the dreaded "Trough of Disillusionment," as reality meets the hype and users are disappointed at the results.
For some ultimately beneficial technologies, progress is then made during the "Slope of Enlightenment" phase, and for some subset of those eventual widespread adoption as they reach the "Plateau of Productivity.
The reality is for this supply chain strategies is a mix of technologies and strategies:
Source: Gartner
What caught our eye in this new chart?
For one, "supply chain resilience" is at the top of the hype cycle (we agree).
Next, we just don't know what "solution supply chains" are.
We're not quite sure "metrics" is a strategy - or that it would have ever gone through a trough of disillusionment.
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