Today is Halloween (Boo!), so I thought it would be fitting to share some scaaaary reasons why Transformations can go very wrong. Change is hard and since a Transformation is a significant change, it is even harder. It takes time. It cannot happen overnight, or even in 12…
While I won’t share my top 5 today, I will share one of them that MUST be in everyone’s top 5 to move to Category Management or they may not know what they speak of and that is a High Performance Leadership Team (HPLT). The Leadership Team (LT)…
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”.
No, there is no typo in the title – the C stands for CHANGE. I am working on a presentation for an ISM dinner meeting in Pittsburgh next week entitled “Sourcing IS Change Management” which was first delivered at a Sourcing Interest Group conference back in 1998 (of…
I’m sure that each one of you has many “supplier of choice” awards on your corporate walls and kudos to you. How many “customer of choice” awards do you have? Does your company even care that it does or does not? Should it care? We’ve discussed this concept…
