A new year has started and so have the New Year’s resolutions. I am no different than anyone else – I want to lose XX pounds and this is the year I am finally going to do it. In the back of my mind, though, all I can…
Have you ever wondered why you hire consulting firms? I have hired all the big firms early in my career but I did start questioning why I was doing it way back then also. We hire them because they are very effective at what they do but here’s…
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…
No, there is no typo in the title – the C stands for CHANGE. I am working on a presentation for an ISM dinner meeting in Pittsburgh next week entitled “Sourcing IS Change Management” which was first delivered at a Sourcing Interest Group conference back in 1998 (of…
20 years ago . . . . . . . YES in 1996, we set out on a journey to do this thing called Strategic Sourcing. It was at a time when my organization was going through a merger of equals (two very large Midwest Banks) and the…
