. . . to your top talent? If not, then please don’t complain when they walk out the door. For years, we have been talking about the war on talent – especially for highly skilled professionals in procurement, sourcing, finance, consulting, etc. Some of our clients spend so…
For the last three weeks, we’ve been having a conversation around the difference between Strategic Sourcing and Category Management? This is a topic that got LOTS of attention and quite a bit of engagement from the readers of this blog 🙂 ! Stay tuned as we walk through…
I wrote a blog about a year ago “Avoiding pitfalls in strategy execution”, highlighting an article I had read in HBR. Last week I stumbled upon another article “Execution is a People Problem, Not a Strategy Problem” and my first thought was – YES!! it’s all about that…
Last week I was running a workshop for Strategic Sourcing professionals and the subject matter was supplier selection and relationship management. One of the topics we discussed was the loss review. Some of the questions I received were: Should we be doing loss reviews? When do you let…
Learning, for any company, should be considered an investment (with an associated ROI) and NOT a cost. It is an investment in its’ most valuable asset – its’ employees but corporate learning programs often get in the way of employee development instead of supporting it. I read an…
