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2d ago
One of the single biggest challenges in Category Management is getting decisions made across organizational silos. You are NOT doing Category Management if you are managing “spend” at the Business Unit level – you MUST be managing a spend category across the ENTIRE organization and herein is where the trouble begins. Business Unit leaders are ..read more
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2w ago
For those of you that have been loyal followers of this blog for the last few years as we have explored the differences between Strategic Sourcing and Category Management, you will recall seeing this model many, many times: You will also recall many, many discussions around strategic competencies which you will see in the outer ..read more
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3w ago
It was the middle of the pandemic, and everyone was trying to figure out how to deal with the impacts. One of the biggest challenges was to determine whether the impacts we were all facing at work were temporary and we could just wait them out or were they more long term in which case ..read more
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1M ago
You are probably NOT going to like my answer – it depends! Defining what it depends ON, is the key! Regardless of your business or industry, every company is providing goods and/or services to a set of customers (these customers may be internal or external or both) through an operating model. To be successful, your ..read more
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1M ago
Surprise!!! In our soon-to-be-published “Talent Risk Snapshot 2024” report, Talent is once again a top concern. You would think that by now we would have figured out how to at least take a shot at tackling this, but apparently not. Here’s a quote from way back when to get the discussion started: “Failing to manage ..read more
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1M ago
I was looking through some client files for some examples to send to a multi-billion dollar multi-national client who is looking to “future-proof” their competencies. I came across this example from another client (ABC) that I ended up sending and thought it was worth discussing with all of you because it lays out a clear ..read more
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2M ago
I read this article in HBR “A Short Guide to Building Your Team’s Critical Thinking Skills”. To move from tactical to strategic, reactive to proactive, Strategic Sourcing to Category Management requires a set of skills that are often not taught in school or even in corporate training but certainly should and can be. An organization ..read more
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2M ago
I know, I know – you’ve now heard multiple definitions of this simple concept called VALUE and yet there seems to be no specific definition of it. Well allow me to add to the confusion because understanding this simple concept can have major impacts on the success of your organization. The most basic fundamental flaw ..read more
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2M ago
Every day we have a new source of uncertainty and even crisis hitting us. We, as humans, are wired to fear the unknown and it can often be overwhelming and debilitating. Look at what COVID 19 has done to the entire world, and still is. Every one of the “events” I noted above have affected ..read more
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2M ago
On any given day I can be on either side of that coin. Before COVID, when most of us were going to the office, we usually started our day by greeting our co-workers and engaging in some type of small talk. What we talked about was not important but sharing those little details of our ..read more