Is there any? This past Tuesday, we had our third meeting of the reenergized Procurement Executives Round Table – PERT (formerly known as Next Practices Xchange) where we discussed “Making the Transition from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management”. Prior to this meeting we conducted a benchmarking study which…
The question really is not whether you are ready for 2017 but is your team ready? I’m assuming that the days of thinking you’re a lone wolf who can accomplish all your goals by yourself are long gone. Therefore, your goal should be to make sure that your…
I wrote a blog about a year ago “Avoiding pitfalls in strategy execution”, highlighting an article I had read in HBR. Last week I stumbled upon another article “Execution is a People Problem, Not a Strategy Problem” and my first thought was – YES!! it’s all about that…
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) and I’m pretty…
Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2016