Happy New Year! Now that we have gotten through one of the most challenging years in ALL of our lives, it’s time to look to the future. In my last blog, I proclaimed 2021 as the “Year of Procurement”. One of the key focus areas MUST be Talent. …
First, I hope you and your family are staying healthy and safe. Call me crazy but I’m kind of liking this new way of working. It took me some time to adjust, BUT I love having a “flexible” work schedule. To be honest I’m putting in more hours,…
First, I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. The last 90 days has taught us all that working remotely is possible. Millions upon millions of us went from commuting to our workplace every day to abruptly scrambling to find a place in our homes to get…
It’s not possible to produce much of anything if you don’t have the raw material needed for production and for any shared service function – and therefore sourcing/supply chain as well- the raw material is talent. Without the right talent and the organizational competence that derives from that,…
If you think the title refers to money, think again! Companies spend millions / billions of dollars a year on managing their balance sheet as if money was their scarcest resource. In a recent HBR article “What if Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?” the…
