Healthcare Cost Containment System Gets To The Heart Of Costs Forbes article by Kate Votasek posted on 12 October 2015. Here’s the link: http://onforb.es/1jk38Fd
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For Innovation: Ask the Person
Innovation doesn’t have to be a mystery featuring secret words, cryptic corporate alchemy and magical thinking. It can be as simple as ATP: ‘ask the person’ doing the work. Communication is vital in every aspect of our personal and business lives, for collaboration, alignment and creating value—so why not when it comes to innovation? A […]
Forbes — 29 September 2015
Leave Money On The Table When Negotiating Strategic Deals Article by Kate Vitasek published in Forbes on 29 September 2015. Business professionals around the world swear by a common strategy: never leave money on the table. Leaving money on the table is seen as a sign of weakness. If you leave money on the table, the […]
Forbes — 24 September 2015
Thurgood Marshall College Fund Partners With Alumnify To Build The World’s Largest Alumni Network Article by Kate Vitasek published on 24 Sept. 2015 The link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katevitasek/2015/09/24/thurgood-marshall-college-fund-partners-with-alumnify-to-build-the-worlds-largest-alumni-network/
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It
I’d like to take a moment to celebrate the wit, and wisdom, of baseball great and cultural icon Yogi Berra, who died on Tuesday at the age of 90. Berra had a unique perspective on life that some might think of as just a list of rambling, funny malapropisms. There was an element of the […]
Forbes — September 2015
Harness — Don’t Fight — Powerful Suppliers Forbes article by Kate Vitasek published on 21 September 2015. As buyers we often find ourselves in the unenviable position of having a supplier that we cannot live without, either because they’re the only provider of a product, service, or software application, or because the cost or risk […]
APQC Knowledge Base — Sept. 2015
Consider the Best Strategic Sourcing Model for Your Business Article by Kate Vitasek publish in APQC’s Knowledge Base on 17 September 2015. Research by the University of Tennessee has found that many, if not most, of the world’s most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. The way we think about procurement has its […]
Forbes — September 2015
Beyond A Fair Price: Proven Approaches To Buy Value Article by Kate Vitasek published 14 Sept. 2015 on the Forbes Leadership site. Many buyers and suppliers are easily frustrated when it comes time to negotiate a fair contract price that preserves and increases value. In fact, it is paradoxical. On one hand the parties discuss […]
It’s Feedback and Measurement
Feedback is always necessary no matter the project or situation, but there’s an important and often overlooked next step: what happens after the feedback? This point is brought home in a recent Harvard Business Review article, “Feedback Without Measurement Won’t Do Any Good,” in which MIT Research Fellow and author Michael Schrage writes: “People understandably invest significant time and […]
APQC Webinar with Kate Vitasek — August 2015
SCM Webinar August 2015: Sourcing Business Models The APQC webinar with Kate Vitasek on 27 August 2015 covered her presentation on Sourcing Business Models and the new book, Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy. The book is scheduled for publication on 27 October 2015. “The procurement playing field is no longer one of lowest cost […]
