If you can’t clearly define Value then you are in good company. Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffet are struggling with that very question – particularly when it comes to Healthcare. As you may have heard there is a “new, disruptive health care alliance formed by Amazon,…
A new year has started and so have the New Year’s resolutions. I am no different than anyone else – I want to lose XX pounds and this is the year I am finally going to do it. In the back of my mind, though, all I can…
I know there’s a song with that line in in but for the life of me I can’t remember what it is. But that line does resonate with some truths that we should talk about. First, you have to know where your here is, because without that, Transformation is…
This past Tuesday, we met with a group of CPOs as part of PERT (Procurement / Supply Executive Round Table) and the topic was “How to Maximize Value through Relationships (Internal and External) and Governance”. The discussion focused on the journey from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management and…
Last week I spoke at an industry event in Philadelphia and when I posed the question – “How many of your organizations are doing Strategic Sourcing?” almost all the hands went up and when I asked the same question regarding Category Management there were still numerous raised hands.…
