Category: Leadership

  • What About Procurement Objectives?

    What About Procurement Objectives?

    It’s been a very long time since I’ve had to consider about procurement objectives. Here are some typical procurement objectives that every procurement professional should consider. Strategic Objectives Cost Savings: Achieve cost reduction targets through effective supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing. Savings can be cashable or non cashable i.e. cost avoidance. Supplier Relationship Management: Build…

  • Chat GPT Take on Procurement Leadership

    Chat GPT Take on Procurement Leadership

    I asked Chat GPT about Procurement Leadership and I have to say the response is good! Who are the procurement leaders?ChatGPT As an AI language model with a knowledge cutoff in September 2021, I can provide you with information about prominent procurement leaders up until that time. However, I may not have up-to-date information on…

  • Reading List- Understanding the Economy

    Reading List- Understanding the Economy

    I’m a very bad reader, unless I set aside time to speed read through books, I never get to finish them and some I’ve only just started 10 Megathreats … I think they will make good reading (at the moment it’s only 3! but I will add more to the list as and when I…

  • The Darkside of Leadership & Diversity

    The Darkside of Leadership & Diversity

    Leadership Types Leadership is a process followers are guided by a lead figure and influenced to achieve objectives, goals through direction. Leadership studies have dominant disciplines such as, transformational, servant, visionary, authentic and situational leadership. Academic literature on leadership are plentiful (Avolio and Gardner, 2005; Gooty et al., 2009; Greenleaf, 1997) and (Blanchard, Zigarmi and…