Procurement leaders invest into the downturn and sustainability
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November 29, 2020
The coming boom in regenerative capitalism articulated through John Elkington's Green Swans book published earlier this year is timed to perfection. There are poignant messages that have been accentuated through COVID and the sustainability momentum highlighted last week through #climateweeknyc2020.
"A green swan is a profound market shift, generally catalysed by some combination of Black or Gray Swan challenges and changing paradigms, values, mind-sets, politics, policies, technologies, business models, and other key factors... delivering exponential progress in the form or economical, social and environmental wealth creation."
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Activating procurement purpose now and beyond COVID
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April 18, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted how fragile and interdependent some supply chains have become. In such times it is important for businesses to have clarity on what are their strengths and where they are heading, in other words have clarity on their purpose. In situations like thifs, businesses a
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Purpose Moves Procurement at Nike
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December 01, 2019
Achieving purpose at scale requires a singular and sustained focus. It is a journey that many are just starting, but also a journey that many are leading the way through inspiring ambition and execution.Nike have adopted a deep and connected approach that integrates the supply chain, embeds standard
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A Good Time To Be Exceptional In Procurement
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October 06, 2019
At our most recent BCG INVERTO Chief Procurement Officer event in London, 2 companies who are leaders in their respective sectors shared their company growth journey covering the challenges and inspiration they both experienced. There were some great insights covering:speed to marketproximity to c
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People, Planet, Profit & Procurement
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October 06, 2019
In 1994, in a seminal HBR article, it was stated “In most corporations today, people no longer know — or even care — what or why their companies are,” and argues that “strategies can engender strong, enduring emotional attachments only when they are embedded in a broader organizati
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Hi Mike
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October 06, 2019
Hi MikeProgress is being made but it is both selective and slowLance Younger on LinkedIn: "Unilever ranked #1 in climate performance annual survey by EcoAct. Unilever provided evidence that it is "collaborating with suppliers to reduce emissions and have demonstrated quantified supplier e
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People, Planet, Profit & Procurement
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September 28, 2019
People, Planet, Profit & Procurement - procurement purpose in 2020s
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What Great Category Strategies Can Do for Procurement
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September 15, 2019
What Great Category Strategies Can Do for Procurement
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A Good Time To Be Exceptional In Procurement
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June 23, 2019
At our most recent CPO event in London, 2 companies who are leaders in their respective sectors shared their company growth journey covering the challenges and inspiration they both experienced. There were some great insights covering:
- speed to market
- proximity to customer
- thriving in adversity
- using historic core strengths to fund the future
- leadership and the power of culture
- new business and commercial models
Common to both these companies and increasingly to how companies are defying the powerful forces of commoditisation and reversion to the mean, is by being exceptional in some way e.g. scale, differentiation or speed.
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Enterprise Crowdsourcing 10xProcurement
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November 05, 2016
In 1567, King Philip II of Spain offered a reward to anyone who could devise a simple and practical method for precisely determining a ship’s longitude at sea. In 1714, the British government established the longitude rewards… the top prize of £20,000 would be worth £2.5 million today.85% of
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