Buyers Meeting Point reviews the Purchasing Practice iProcure Assessment with a positive thumbs up, concluding: We often talk about the need for procurement to become more strategic. But the discourse is often no more detailed than that. This assessment provides an excellent opportunity to get the conversation started, and make meaningful capability improvement a real opportunity. BMP highlighted the following … Read More
Political Mindset: influence decisions and embed change?
Political Mindset: influence decisions and embed change? Political Mindset: influence decisions and embed change? – 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 defines our ability to influence decisions on who gets the resources, what goals and … Read More
Position Mindset: drive organizational change
Position Mindset: to drive organizational change Position Mindset: 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 to leadership style. Leadership style is defined by the primary source of motivation for the … Read More
Mindset for leading successful procurement transformation
Mindset for leading successful procurement transformation Mindset for leading successful procurement transformation – 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 mindset of how procurement is viewed (and therefore its status – a transformation) inside the organization. … Read More
Aligning Procurement Skills to Business Strategy
Aligning Procurement Skills to Business Strategy The ever changing business environment is placing greater demands upon businesses and requires today’s procurement professionals to develop the skills to maintain alignment with the business strategy and to expand procurement’s scope and depth of influence across the business. Aligning Procurement Skills to Business Strategy. Procurements position in many business has been elevated due … Read More
Building procurement capability utilizing the flipped classroom
The flipped model puts more of the responsibility for learning on the shoulders of participants while giving them greater impetus to experiment with different application approaches.
Effective strategic procurement training
The best procurement organizations understand that capability is not just the byproduct of individual skill-building, but a critical organizational capacity.
Sell Category Management Benefits to Senior Management
Category Management can have a positive impact across all areas of the business whether measured by profitability, cash management or balance sheet ratios, reducing cost or supporting growth, category management can deliver appropriate strategies whatever the business cycle.
Procurement Capability: People Matter Most
Procurement Capability: People Matter Most Procurement Capability: People Matter Most – There is no shortage of procurement experts prepared to offer their unique recipe for successful procurement transformation. Experts will offer improved processes, better use of technology, the need for management support, yet many procurement functions find lasting success elusive. Why is this? Because it’s the people that matter most. … Read More
Category Management: 7 Steps to Establish Governance
Category Management: 7 Steps to Establish Governance Category Management: 7 Steps to Establish Governance – Strong effective governance defining the way work gets done is critical to implementing Category Management in any organization. Without it turf wars will ensue and the implementation initiative will likely lose its way. So what is Category Management Governance? At its core any governance structure … Read More