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Is your approach to hiring top procurement talent a game of hide-and-seek? (CPO Strategy Magazine)
I was recently asked to write an article for CPO Strategy magazine regarding how organizations can attract, identify and hire procurement leaders. Specifically, what are the key elements of a successful supply chain executive recruiters strategy.
Here is the excerpt with
New procurement skills for a post-COVID-19 world
The need to reexamine our roles as procurement professionals is still an important topic – perhaps even more so now than before. With supply chain resiliency being continuously “stretched” towards a breaking point from every direction, and interruptions in the
CPO Strategy – Sourcing Solved Survey: Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the procurement professional
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every area of our lives. From mandatory social distancing to massive layoffs and shutdowns, its imprint will continue long after this crisis has passed.
That said, procurement and the supply chain overall has
New Knowledge Note: Securing Top Procurement Talent in the Digital Age
Procurement as a profession is going through a time of major transformation.
CPOstrategy and Sourcing Solved have worked together to release a shared Knowledge Note, designed to provide you with an accurate and highly useful picture of
A new mindset for a new technology — Why procurement needs to think differently in the digital age (Procurement Foundry)
I was recently asked to write an article for the Procurement Foundry blog. With 6,000 members and growing fast, Procurement Foundry is on its way to becoming the most influential procurement and supply chain community in the world.
Here is the
At the crossroads of accomplishment: How HR, Procurement and IT can work together to realise their collective greatness
In my article last week (HR’s role in transforming the global procurement practice), I talked about the role that HR will play in transforming the procurement practice through the introduction of the market-oriented ecosystem or “MOE.”
For
HR’s role in transforming the global procurement practice
To help HR professionals deliver value through organisation, we have focused our work on helping them build the “right” culture, which is the identity of the firm in the mind of the key customers made real to employees. As such,
EQ, Procurement and the Perils of Resume Hunting
In reading the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, emotional intelligence is “described” as being “the most important emerging soft skill heading into 2020.”
From a procurement standpoint, during an interview Supply Chain VP Taras Korec identified emotional intelligence as
Minding the Talent Gap in Procurement (Sören Petsch w/Iain Campbell-McKenna)
The Uninitiated might have been shocked by the harsh ratings Procurement leaders gave their teams in Deloitte’s 2019 Global Chief Procurement Officer Survey.
According to the responses, 76% of the 481 CPOs queried (managing over US$5 trillion
Handling crisis management and the evolution of procurement (Guest Blog)
Considering there is an old saying that “the secret of effective crisis management is not good versus bad; it’s preventing bad from getting worse.”
As the COVID-19 virus grew into a global pandemic forcing governments to institute social distancing measures to
Shopping for talent
Taking our shopping experience online has revolutionised how we shop as a consumer. Through automation, we have gone from spending significant amounts of time roaming the aisles of stores hunting for what we need to a simple search and click
From “unchartered waters” and “Wild West” analogies, here is what procurement leadership will look like in the post-COVID world
From “unchartered waters” and “Wild West” analogies, what will procurement leadership look like in the post-COVID world?
In the past few days, if not shell-shocked, we have all probably felt inundated by the surprising, attention-grabbing headlines that flash across our screens.
Hiring from home: 9 tips on how to conduct interviews in the new virtual reality
We live and work in increasingly uncertain times. While global economies are taking a significant hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the demands on supply chains are equally notable.
For the many organisations who were in the middle of searching for
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