It is of course a tragedy that is hard to watch and one that everyone thought was unfathomable – but here we are. Never underestimate man’s capacity to be cruel to fellow human beings. But watching what is happening in Ukraine does have implications for our profession. In…
I was putting together an advisory document for a CPO on some of his challenges for 2022 and in doing some research, I found some slides that I had created for a different client many years ago (I won’t tell you when yet). What I found intriguing was…
As you are quite familiar, we have been wrestling with this topic of Category Management (“CM”) for many, many years and have developed a number of scars along the way helping many clients put Category Management programs in place. We recently conducted a workshop on this topic, and…
As most of you know, we do lots and lots of work with teams and even our Category Management practice depends heavily on working with client teams as opposed to more traditional consulting models because we ensure transfer of skill and knowledge. We are currently involved in helping…
We were recently approached by the CPO of a very large global organization who has been a client in multiple different companies, and he was all excited about this new concept called AGILE procurement and wanted it introduced to his organization immediately. First, let me acknowledge that it…