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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

One of the key qualities of an effective CPO is the ability to think strategically and align procurement initiatives with the overall business objectives. This collaboration ensures that the identified qualities and skills needed for a chief procurement officer (CPO) align with the overall business objectives and culture.

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HR: The Strategic MVP in Business Playbooks

HR Digest

Here are some specific reasons why it is necessary for HR to take part in business strategic planning: Winning Top Talent: HR is responsible for identifying and recruiting top talent to support business objectives through workforce planning.

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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. Four times more likely to have built a strong pipeline of ready-now leaders to fill available critical roles.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Don't miss this great podcast where Wally and Wayne talk about ways to keep your team focused on key business objectives.  Don't miss this great podcast where Wally and Wayne talk about ways to keep your team focused on key business objectives.

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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. Turn it on and let it be your mantra.

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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. So that’s how thought leaders differentiate themselves – by doing the deep thinking that most folks aren’t prepared to do. RS: Why is it hard to become a thought leader? LA: For two reasons.

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Rethinking The “Ideal” Employee

Lead Change Blog

But let’s assume for a minute that a company has articulated measurable business objectives—not the pie-in-the-sky fluff that many organizations pass off as a “vision.” ” Let’s further assume that the company has cascaded these objectives into measurable goals for individual employees and teams.