RT @mypurchasing: While buzz words and tag lines are fun to read, what are hiring managers trying to say? Why do they feel compelled to use…
Can Appreciative Inquiry Work for Purchasing?
Most purchasing professionals have never heard of appreciative inquiry. It is a systematic discovery process to search for what is best or positive in an organization or its strengths. These strengths are then improved upon to create an even stronger and more dynamic organization. Implementing change remains positive and thus springs from an organization’s strengths, not its weaknesses, or deficie...
NESCON 2020: A Reimagined Conference for a Restructured World
NESCON 2020 (click here to register or view the full agenda) is being held online October 5-7th, starting at 11am each day. Speakers include returning favorites such as Jeff Carr, President at Economic & Policy Resources, Inc., Andrew Bartolini, Founder and Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners, Pierre Mitchell, Managing Director at Spend Matters, and Jonathan Hughes, Partner and Strategic...
Recommended Procurement Webinars Sept 28 – Oct 2: Driving Risk Culture and Building Resilience to Catastrophe
If you are planning your webinar schedule beyond this week, I recommend “Negotiate with the Power of AI” from DocuSign and World Commerce & Contracting (the association formerly known as IACCM) on Oct 6th at 11 am ET. BTW: If you haven’t already, sign up for our mailing list to be sure you get my weekly recommendations in your inbox each Monday. Driving Risk Culture: An Integrated and P...
A Tough Talk: Identifying Dysfunction to Clear the Way for New Ideas
Editor's note: This content is from the MyPurchasingCenter content archive. It was originally published in 2015 and appears here with technical edits and minor revisions to reflect the passage of time. As Moore explains, in organizations there is competition, or internal friction, that works to help the organization improve. That friction usually shows up as challenges different parts of the organ...
What Is This Job Really?
Author: Julienne B. Ryan, Principal at J. Ryan Partners Editor’s note: This article is part of the MyPurchasingCenter content archive. It was originally published in 2015 and appears here without revision. Probably not in many interviews. That’s probably why your inner voice is probably shouting that they want someone to “give it to you straight” so you can have a sense of reality. It m...
Bad Buying – Organizational Competence is Key to Avoiding It
For many years, I’ve wanted to write a book that was fundamentally about procurement, but would appeal to a wider business audience, rather than just our core professional community. My inspiration behind the Bad Buying idea was basically that everyone likes reading about things going wrong! Many of the case studies I’ve got in the book are genuinely fascinating, sometimes jaw-dropping and occasio...
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RT @mypurchasing: If you don’t challenge the organization, people get so busy doing day to day work that they forget to take the time to be…
