Talent
Get offa me! Away from me! Get me outa here! Don’t follow me! Don’t bother me! I’m no leader. from “Leader” on “Essentially Naked” by Bif NakedIn his latest article (Supply Management Transformation: A Leader’s Guide), Robert Rudzki of Transformation Leadership and Greybeard Advisors notes that he likes to ask two questions when [...]
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Industry week recently ran an article on how to recession proof your business by three authors that had a rather interesting take on how you go about this. According to the article, you start by identifying the tribes that constitute your business and determining where they are in their sociological progression. If they [...]
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the doctor is pleased to welcome Dick Locke of Global Procurement Group back to Sourcing Innovation.My guest post on the issue of keeping talent mentioned a ten-question quiz on global supply management skills. After the post, there was a surge of people who took the quiz. I have to say the results were disappointing. I [...]
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A recent article in Strategy+Business which started off by noting that today’s Chief Information Officer must enable the organization to meet its strategic goals and to envision goals that were never before possible caught my eye. The article, which quickly quoted Michael Giledman who said that you (need to) spend a lot of time [...]
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As evidenced by my recent Talent Week series, and many posts on Talent here on this blog, a major war for talent is building, and you stand to lose your business if you don’t start preparing now. However, as clarified in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article, before you can win on the global talent [...]
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I hope you enjoyed this special mini-series on Talent and associated issues this week. With the talent crunch about to hit in a big way, we could all be losers in the talent war if we don’t start taking steps to make sure we have the talent we need in place when we need [...]
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Today I’d like to welcome Don Dougherty, a Partner with SupplyStaff and Denali Consulting.In today’s global economy, hiring and retaining top talent is a driving concern of corporate and human capital management professionals. Escalating retirement rates are looming, fewer resources are entering the job market than in previous generations, and required skills sets are [...]
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Today I’d like to welcome Charles Dominick of Next Level Purchasing with his post on Procurement Transformation.Procurement transformation. It’s a buzzphrase. It’s a goal. And it’s a reality for some organizations.But what does it take? What are the necessary ingredients to take a purchasing and supply management department from a state [...]
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Today I’d like to welcome Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights.In 2006 CPO Agenda’s London-based editor chaired a panel discussion asking the question “are there any limits to procurement’s role?” The panel which included senior procurement personnel from organizations such as Nestle, Danone, British Airways and Merrill Lynch provided some interesting insights into the prevailing [...]
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Today I’d like to welcome Dick Locke from Global Procurement Group.Thank you to the doctor for the opportunity to contribute. Here are my thoughts from the perspective of someone involved in the training aspects of globalizing supply management.I’m optimistic overall. The caliber of people attending my seminars has improved, and the caliber of commentary [...]
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