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Procurements Dilemma – Leader or Support Function
“We want to collaborate with our internal stakeholders, but at the end of the day we cannot tell them to buy into our sourcing strategy.”How many procurement professionals have spent their careers with...
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Top Ten Priorities for Innovation Centred Procurement:
Innovation Centered ProcurementProcurement must learn to adapt to the rapidly changing environment modern businesses operate in or risk becoming irrelevant. It is not just about new tools, but about...
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Procurement: Be Strategic or Die
In a separate post, over on SM Steve Bagshaw asks us to contemplate what we call ourselves – a question which refuses to die. On the Purchasing Practice Linkedin group this same question is still...
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Do you have the critical Mindset for executing and leading successful...
Here we discuss the Personal Mindset required by procurement professionals.Procurements challenge for as long as I care to remember is to change the corporate mind-set. In other words changing the...
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Do you have the appropriate Position Mindset to drive organizational change?
In our last post we talked about Personal Mind-set. In this second post we talk about Position Mind-set.The next level of mindset stems from the personal mindset is the position mindset which relates...
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Can you adopt the appropriate Political Mindset to influence decisions and...
The final part of our introduction to the key procurement mindsets is the Political Mindset.The Political Mindset relates to our negotiation style when engaging stakeholders.It is importance because it...
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Are you afraid of completing a team procurement skills assessment?
Many CPO’s would like to conduct a reliable skills assessment to understand the knowledge, capabilities and skill’s gap of their team, but don’t act upon it further. The reason for this inaction is...
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Procurement skill’s and employee career development
Build capability and provide opportunities for career progression for your team through clearly articulated and differentiated skill requirements across the procurement organization.We take a look at a...
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The Future of Procurement Scene 1: Commanding the Stage
The stage is set in the battle for procurements future:The future of the procurement function is a hot topic at the moment. Amongst the more insightful outputs comes from Oxford Economics, who recently...
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