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If you need to accelerate the performance of your procurement leadership team, please contact:
Jon Hughes+44 (0) 7958 763159 ejhughes@futurepurchasing.com
If you need to strengthen the leadership team through executive search, please contact:
Jim Burley+44 (0) 7818 064352 jburley@futurepurchasing.com
Leadership and Talent Management Briefings for Senior Executives
In Future Purchasing Leaders we have combined our own functional insights with those of top quality leadership experts drawn from search, strategy, coaching, assessment and outplacement. The following briefings reflect this.
Leadership and Talent Management Briefings
| Title | Description | Document |
| Framing the Procurement Leadership Agenda | This briefing, based on a CPO survey and international forum held in London, addresses two guiding questions:
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 Briefing 12006 |
| The Talent Advantage: CPO and Supply Chain Executive Search | Examines six key steps in successful executive search, before demonstrating several parallel activities required to create a procurement and supply chain talent advantage. | Briefing 2 October 2009 |
| Challenging Strategy is Challenging: A Framework for Action | Outlines a practical mechanism for aligning and integrating procurement and supplier strategies with corporate strategy and strategic intent. Particularly emphasises mobilisation and deployment issues. | |
| CPOs: Functional Improvers or Business Pioneers? | As board expectations become more challenging, so it becomes increasingly important that the right types of leaders are in position to drive different programmes of change. This briefing examines a range of possibilities. | Briefing 4 October 2009 |
| Addressing Gaps, Building on Strengths - Core Competencies for Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders | Outlines different types of coaching methodologies within a procurement and supply chain leadership competency framework. Explains five clusters of core competencies: leading self, others, strategy, function and change. | Briefing 5 October 2009 |
Procurement Transformation Articles and Reports
| Title | Description | Document |
| Connecting Purchasing and Supplier Strategies to Shareholder Value: Emerging Trends for Executive Action | This executive briefing, led by Future Purchasing, examines four themes based on a global survey:
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Executive Briefing June 2004 |
| Pulling Power: Building Organisation-Wide Procurement Competence |
Examines six performance levers required to build enterprise-wide distinctive procurement competence. Case studies are from Numico and Carlsberg. | CPO Agenda article Spring 2005 |
| Managing the Matrix: Redesigning Organisational, Operating and Leadership Structures. |
Organisational design is a minefield for the unwary. Adopting a more systematic and authoritative approach is central to the success of CPOs and is covered in this article. Case studies are from GSK and WPP. | CPO Agenda article Winter 2005 |
| Leadership at the Crossroads: New Profiles for Next Generation Procurement Leaders |
The capabilities required for world class procurement are changing significantly. They call for a very different leadership profile that is explored in this article. Case studies are from AstraZeneca, Group 4, Merck, NHS, Nokia and Philips. | CPO Agenda article Autumn 2006 |
| Exploiting the Strategic Power of Supply Management | Future Purchasing, in conjunction with CIPS, sponsored this research with Henley Business School, University of Reading. It is the first study of its kind to assess the degree of impact that procurerment and supply managment has on the bottom line of the business. | Research Report December 2008 |
| Benchmarking the Value Levers |
Summarises four internal organisational value levers central for change management and six external supplier facing ones. | Insight Guide 34 September 2009 |
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