My early days with Magnatech Drive Products, a past client, were as memorable as they come. I’ll never forget the first time I was given a tour of MDP’s main facility by the CEO and a few senior managers. Walking into the operations “War Room” left an indelible...
Contemplating what true product management success means is a valuable exercise. For starters, it may force some organizations and product leaders to realize that authentic and sustainable product management success isn’t the same thing as transient or singular...
A lot of effort, dollars and leadership attention expended on improving organizational capability is often targeted at technology and process enhancements. That’s not a bad thing per se. Technology can provide powerful advancements in how we do the work. For example,...
Many Procurement functions struggle with attaining a solid platform in their organizations, even when they have a formal mandate. Quite often, one of the key challenges is Procurement not getting much love from stakeholders across the organization. The issue of...
When we talk about “Procurement performance” it’s easy to forget that functional performance is dependent on the performance of each person in Procurement. After all, the Procurement organization is a team of individuals. Unless individual effort is directed at...
