Transformation is HARD! If you don’t believe that then you have never gone through one. Often, when a transformation fails or an organization does not achieve its’ desired business results, “culture” is identified as the culprit or perhaps the scapegoat so says two Supply Chain Management professors in “Culture Eats Strategy . . . and how to deal with it”.
This is perhaps one of the hardest discussions that we get into at various conferences and the discussion is always the same – regardless of where we are speaking in the world. Many people instinctively know that unless they can change the metrics they are measured on –…
When July 19, 2018 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Topics Optimal Organizational Design for Procurement (Including a Center of Excellence) Global Sourcing In the New Global Political Realities Where Morton Arboretum 4100 Illinois 53 Lisle, Illinois 60532 Contact The Mpower Group-Rick info@thempowergroup.com What Our Members…
Centralized, Decentralized / Consulted or Center-Led? Which organization structure is considered Next Practice? Regardless of the industry you are in or whether you are doing Strategic Sourcing or have matured to Category Management, any or all of these structures can work. We spend so much time paying…
I was recently on a call with a client (where we had worked on a major Transformation effort) to launch a Professional Services sourcing engagement with a spend well into the 100’s of millions. While we were talking about the governance for this engagement, he (unsolicited) started talking…