By now you have probably heard about the poor Ever Given which is stuck in the Suez Canal. The impact of this is yet to be felt and the severity of the impact is yet to be calculated. Here are just some of the headlines: Suez blockage could…
As Strategic Sourcing or Category Management professionals you are all familiar with Supplier Diversity. You may have quotas or “set-asides” that dictate what percentage of your spend must go to “diverse” suppliers based on internal policy, customer mandates or federal regulations. You have definitions around what is a…
Following up from my last two posts, I’m happy to report that smarter people at our firm took what I wrote and took it a lot further and (drumroll) here it is – Our listicle (and that is not a derisive thing anymore) for 2020 and beyond. I…
Over a year ago we, at The Mpower Group, tapped into this major conversation around the difference between Strategic Sourcing and Category Management. So many of our client organizations are trying to make that journey and finding it to be quite challenging. Let’s ALL acknowledge the fact that…
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,…
