I get a big kick out of these annual surveys (and we’ve done our fair share of them at TMG). We often use them to validate key messages with clients. I recently came across this one from Deloitte and I was struck by what it was…
If you were in Britain recently looking for a meal at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the answer was – It didn’t exist!!! A large number of their restaurants were shut down because there was no chicken. They all stayed on the other side of the street…
We started talking about this question back in January of this year and then added a Webinar series in April in response to the overwhelming interest in this topic. All I can say is WOW! Most organizations are trying to move to Category Management but…
The short answer is YES! And this from a firm that has long derided the latest buzz words from the consultant community and got harangued for recommending the death of Strategic Sourcing a few years back. Every function must continue to evolve and the faster…
Obviously that’s a rhetorical question and not one that I’m asking but it was in an article that stated: ”Any idiot should be able to work out that publicly-quoted advertising holding companies (whose margins are public knowledge) have to make their money somewhere…..” (Stephen Foster)…
That is the title for the next meeting of PERT (Procurement Executives Round Table) being held today. For the TMG alumni and longtime readers of this blog, that will not be a surprise (sourcing is dead and few others) but I’m sure we will have…