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85% of corporate change efforts fail! BE THE 15%.
Sponsored by: Institute for Supply Management – Carolinas/Virginia Chapter (ISM-CV)
Presented by: Barbara Ardell, Vice President at Paladin Associates
Description: Procurement professional, Barbara Ardell, examines procurement's change challenges and overviews the high the cost of failure. She introduces a groundbreaking change methodology, Influencer, which is documented in the NY Times bestseller by the same name. Barbara explains why the Influencer methodology, named 2009 Change Management Product of the Year by MIT/Sloan Management Review, is both different from and superior to traditional change management approaches. She introduces the key components of the Influencer methodology and provides numerous procurement-related application examples.