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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As Strategic Sourcing / Category Management / Supply Chain consultants we advise our clients in a variety of ways, some of which are how to operate (which operating model to deploy?), how to organize (org structure) and what types of resources to hire (skillset / competencies). As the organization matures and attempts to move toward Category [...]