259: Managing the Devil in the Details w/ Mark Richardson
Whether you are a consultant or a practitioner, it seems like the grass is always greener on the other side. Consultants are constantly on the road, work late hours and are subject to high expectation...
1 Juli 201928min
258: How to Hire for EQ w/ Iain Campbell McKenna
Today I am joined on the show by my good friend, procurement executive recruiter Iain McKenna. Iain is Founder and Managing Director of the executive search firm Sourcing Solved. Our conversation is ...
24 Juni 201933min
257: Embracing Disruption to Spur Procurement Innovation w/ Cyril Pourrat
Many procurement organizations pay lip service to innovation, but few are taking the steps required to make it a reality. Part of this has to do with the difficulty overcoming the paralysis of the unk...
17 Juni 201945min
256: Becoming a Self Determined Manager w/ David Deacon
If you've been in the workplace – any kind of workplace at all – for longer than six months, chances are good you've experienced poor management at least once. Sadly, being in the workplace for years ...
10 Juni 201939min
255: How to Build a "Board of Directors" and Create Alignment with Executive Stakeholders
Whether we are responsible for Procurement and our stakeholder is the c-suite, or we are developing a Category Strategy and our stakeholders are the business users. Alignment continues to be one of th...
3 Juni 201918min
254: GPO Do's and Don'ts w/ Anthony Clervi
I'm joined today by Anthony Clervi, President and CEO of UNA, a group purchasing organization (or GPO). He joined us last month for an AoP Live session that proposed an alternative approach to 'automa...
27 Maj 201958min
253: Winning Hearts and Minds: A Transformation Journey Three Years In w/ Dave Quillin
The only guarantee that comes with a transformation journey is that there will be 'twists and turns' along the way. And since no organization can escape the unexpected, how procurement leaders makers ...
20 Maj 201937min
252: Hitting the Brakes on Out of Control Supplier Master Data w/ Cyrille Naux
Everything procurement delivers – from savings to risk mitigation to value – is predicated on having access to clean, trustworthy data. If this foundation does not exist or if it is shaky, then buyers...
13 Maj 201926min
