You may call this a back to basics or Next Practices blog but the importance of effective teams in Category Management will never go away. And I was reminded of it in a recent conversation with a client who has taken over a new organization that has also…
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…
We ran a series of webinars titled: The Journey from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management: The Secret Sauce or Opening the Kimono and I happened to come across one of the sessions while doing some research for a client, and it reminded me of the old saying: The…
“Cracking the Code on Collaboration – Six new tools”. Here was the answer I had been searching for – THE code. I imagined that I would find a set of swanky new digital tools or techniques that would blow my socks off. Maybe even a little RPA or…
