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As you know, we try and stay away from fads and labels and hopefully this doesn’t turn into one.  Future Proofing is a term that is starting to gain some traction and I decided that it was a vary apt description for our latest research publication that was just released:  Future Proof your Organization: Challenges, [...]

Since this is the start of Labor Day weekend (in the US), we thought we would delay our really serious blog post that we had planned.  We hope you have a safe holiday weekend with friends and loved ones.

If you consider your Procurement organization to be World-Class then you are no doubt implementing, or at a minimum, researching new technology like RPA (Robotic Process Automation) or AI (Artificial Intelligence) or “not so new” technology like Procure-to-Pay or Source-To-Settle applications such as Coupa, Sage, etc.  These solutions can go a long way in helping [...]

While I won’t share my top 5 today, I will share one of them that MUST be in everyone’s top 5 to move to Category Management or they may not know what they speak of and that is a High Performance Leadership Team (HPLT). The Leadership Team (LT) of the function must be operating at [...]

The number one biggest issue a Procurement organization has as it moves up the maturity model is internal stakeholder resistance.  This is true, by the way for any shared service organization that is trying to make a fundamental change in the way they work. We often find that misaligned metrics and the absence of “the [...]