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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. A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies.

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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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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. By which I mean people whose influence is based not on saying the same things differently, or curating others’ thoughts, or being sleight-of-hand marketers. RS: Why is it hard to become a thought leader?

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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. Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. Turn it on and let it be your mantra. Insight Center.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. ” But it’s far from moneyball when it comes to event marketing. But it needn’t be that way.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

The results show that executives feel that they have a high level of understanding of their companies’ strategic priorities, while sales reps — who aren’t typically in the planning meetings, on the conference calls, or roaming the halls with the people crafting strategy — said they did not.