I hope you and your families are staying healthy and safe. After reading my title you are most likely asking yourself “how are these topics related to each other and to Category Management”? I can and will relate all three of these topics to Category Management. If you…
Browsing: Strategic Sourcing Vs. Category Management
70 cents and $1.00 – those are the prices of the two items that may have had the greatest impact on the response to the pandemic – both in lives lost and economically. The two items are the N95 face masks which pre COVID were going for 70…
A recent spate of news around this topic makes this an opportune time for this discussion. Any Category Management (CM) strategy (and for this discussion we will talk about outsourcing offshore as the CM strategy) MUST have an exit ramp as an integral component. The reason that offshoring…
Last week my Harvard Business Review arrived in the mail (yes, the mail 😊) and I was very excited a to see a teaser on the front cover “Cracking the Code on Collaboration – Six new tools”. Here was the answer I had been searching for – THE…
Take a quick poll: [poll id=”10″] I used to play a lot of golf and somewhere along the way I decided I was good enough (I wasn’t) to give lessons. I also wrote this, which I’ve never shared on this blog and think that it actually is a…