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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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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. ” It doesn’t necessarily refer to any particular technology, method, or value proposition. Predictive analytics isn’t a technology you simply buy and plug in.

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Four Ways to Scale Digital Capabilities on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

Make sure your guidelines align to business objectives. Bringing distributed groups up to speed with digital strategy puts you in the guidelines business. Information & technology Internet Organizational culture' The second is dedicated training.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. New technology goes further.

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Establish Expertise Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Developing his coaching brand began to raise Leckie’s professional profile in general, which eventually to led to an invitation to give a keynote talk for a client’s conference of technology leaders. if he hadn’t taken the time to show them how it was relevant to the company’s business objectives.

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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. There are other gaps, too.