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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency.

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HR: The Strategic MVP in Business Playbooks

HR Digest

In this article, we look at why HR strategy is important for businesses and how they can go about strategic planning. Why is it necessary for HR to take part in business strategy? HR plays a critical role in business strategy because it is responsible for managing an organization’s most important asset: its people.

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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional! License.

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3 Common Mistakes That Can Derail Your Team’s Predictive Analytics Efforts

Harvard Business Review

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. In 2011, Thomas Davenport was kind enough to keynote at the conference I founded, Predictive Analytics World. And the solution is a new way of business that integrates machine learning.

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Dr. Liz Alexander on Thought Leadership

Rajesh Setty

The first is that “thought leader” isn’t something you go around saying about yourself, it’s a term conferred on you by others. The results of which are tremendously powerful for anyone who aspires to thought leadership or even simply wants to improve their business. LA: Look at the context in which business is operating these days.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps. There are other gaps, too.