Everyone likes to talk about sourcing leaders and the great jobs they do - but try finding an article that talks about the fundamental qualities of a great sourcing leader, and that’s a whole different ball game. While it’s almost ridiculously easy to find dozens of articles on what a sourcing leader does, it’s […]
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I recently came across an article over on Global Services Beta that said Talent War 2012: U.S.A. Set to Win. Needless to say I was stunned - especially since the first paragraph ended on the U.S. labor market is set to become less open and flexible over the next five years amid fears of […]
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Are you a supervisor, manager, or executive struggling to get the same performance out of your team that leading purchasing departments appear to be getting out of theirs? Are you wondering why this is the case? Then maybe you should consider getting your team profiled.Although there could be a dozen reasons why your […]
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Last week in The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is Wrong. Dead Wrong!, I alerted you to a recent discovery of Tim Minahan’s that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics latest report on the sector is that overall employment for purchasing and supply managers is expected to grow slower than the average for all occupations […]
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John LaPorta’s (Procurement, IBM) presentation on “It’s not just about the technology: How to accelerate procurement skills and gain a real competitive advantage” was one of the best presentations at the Technology for Procurement Forum in San Francisco, put on by EyeForProcurement last month, and my favorite. In this […]
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The April 23 (2007) issue of Canadian Business had a large section on the Best Workplaces of 2007 with the theme of How to Build a Better Worker that contained a number of useful tips for those of you working on your Talent Acquisition, Retention, and Development plans to make sure you don’t become another […]
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Given my temperament to tout the talent gap that is now increasing daily, I was happy to see the recent article from the European Leaders Network that stated People Do Matter Most, Really. The article, which referenced a recently completed research study, revealed, again to my content, that the best performing CPOs are concentrating […]
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Noting that it has been a while since my last Talent post, I went trolling for good articles. On the CPO Agenda site I found not one, but two great articles on talent development. Deep Sea Fishing by Adrian Done and Nurturing Talent: A Numico Case Study by Haide Villuendas from last fall’s […]
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In a recent CAPS Research publication Supply Leadership Changes they point out that few decisions that affect the success of supply in an organization will have more impact than the decisions regarding who will be the CPO and to whom he or she will report.
The report had some interesting findings:
There were […]
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Just in case you missed it, I wanted to point out the recent article declaring that there is no end in sight for the ‘war for talent’ over on the European Leaders Network site.
According to the article, the ‘war for talent’ in procurement is being fought as fiercely as ever on battlefields as diverse as […]
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