InformationWeek Podcast: Reengineering your supply chain to be resilient

Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to talk about resources and methods to ensure continuity.

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth,Senior Editor,InformationWeek

March 3, 2026

Maintaining a steady supply chain can make a difference in an organization’s survivability in the face of external issues. The resilience of workflow and logistics can demonstrate to customers and competitors that a company can deliver when things get tough.

This episode of the InformationWeek Podcast looks at what teams need or have done with AI and other tech resources to make their supply chain more resilient, versus outside external factors.

Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to answer questions about the resources and methodologies formerly used for resilience and what teams need now. What elements make sense to focus on? When should automation come into play? Why is it important for business operations to know there is a plan or structure for resilience in place for the supply chain? Our panelists also met the challenges, goblins, kobolds and gremlins of the Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise.

About the Author

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth

Senior Editor, InformationWeek

Joao-Pierre S. Ruth edits stories for InformationWeek as well as reports on C-suite tech leaders across a multitude of industries and tech disciplines. He also hosts the InformationWeek Podcast, which brings together CIOs, CTOs, and other C-suite leadership to discuss their different approaches to addressing shared challenges. He joined InformationWeek in 2019, initially as a Senior Writer covering cloud computing and DevOps. He became a Senior Editor in 2023.

His work with InformationWeek garnered American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBE) awards in 2024. This included "Could the DOJ's Antitrust Trial vs Google Drive More Innovation?" as part of the team’s Government Coverage, which collectively won a Bronze National award and a gold Northeast regional award, as well as a bronze regional award for a Web Feature Series on the environmental impact of data-driven organizations published during Earth Month. That award included his story "How Do Supercomputers Fit With Strategies for Sustainability?"

He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, reporting on business and technology first in New Jersey, then covering the New York tech startup community, and later as a freelancer for such outlets as TheStreet, Investopedia, and Street Fight.

Joao-Pierre can be reached via email at [email protected]

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