This sounds counter intuitive to many people when we say this but the absolute best outcome for ANY sourcing event is that there is no change in the supplier and the incumbent maintains the business. Imagine how easy life would be and how much our stakeholders would love…
Many of you continue to ask us to focus on the difference between Category Management (CM) and Strategic Sourcing (SS). The first clarification we would make is that CM is the next level of maturity from SS so it’s not a question of one vs. another but rather…
Since this is the beginning of a long holiday weekend, we thought we would delay our usual blog post. We hope you have a happy, healthy and safe holiday weekend with friends and loved ones. Happy Thanksgiving! From all of us at The Mpower Group
Veterans Day was yesterday for us in the United States, we would like to pause and reflect on how lucky we feel to have a military that keeps us, our family and all of us safe. We think of their families, too, and the sacrifice they make on a…
There are some irrefutable observations that we are able to make after decades of launching, studying, fixing many initiatives – be they sourcing events, Transformations, major ERP implementations etc. etc. And we have shared many of them along the way (Strategic Competencies, Change Management, Adoption etc. etc.) One…