Source One Management Services LLC
Guest BlogSource One Management Services LLC is a leading strategic sourcing, supply chain, and procurement consulting firm. With over 20 years of experience, Source One optimizes performance and profitability by supplementing client resources with cost reduction, strategic sourcing services, and spend management solutions. Source One also has the temporary, on-demand resources to staff short-term procurement, supply…
Managing a Contingent Workforce
Functional Insights, Guest BlogFreelancers, independent professionals, temporary staff, contactors, and consultants in one form or another we’ve all encountered contingent workers; a portion of the workforce that is growing. A rising hiring trend, contingent staffing offers a number of benefits for companies including: flexibility in type and amount of labor resources as needed, cost savings in benefits and…
Media and Publications
Functional InsightsProcuring High-Quality Talent In the latest edition of ISM Forward Scan, our managing partner, Naseem Malik, examines how CPOs can succeed in their quest for quality talent using their expertise of supply management. He explores how simple procurement practices, including early supplier engagement for products and services, combine with human resources to identify the drivers…
The Theory of Motivation
HiringIn this time and age of increased competition and opportunities in the job market, job satisfaction plays a major role in retaining talented professionals within mid to high-level companies. Hiring authorities and potential employers are incorporating proven measures and best practices to identify, attract and engage top talent. From reevaluation of hiring/recruiting efforts to offering…
Whither Company Branding?
HiringAs trite as this concept and term may sound, it remains as important as ever to both companies and employees. In a time where brands are just as important as branding, companies realize they will be well served to harness the power of both when it comes to attracting and retaining their top talent. In…
The Transition from Consulting to Industry
Guest Blog, HiringOne night in March of 2011, I was sitting in the First Class lounge of the Denver airport when I received a phone call from one of my former consulting colleagues, Hey Scott! Let me know when you would like to get off of the road and join me at QBE. He continued to explain that…
Finding and Keeping Top Talent in Procurement
Guest Blog, HiringWhat comes to mind when you think of procurement? Is it a negative connotation? Historically, procurement was a department that measured success based on the hard-dollar savings. While procurement is still concerned with savings, the typical procurement department is now much more concerned with creating value throughout the entire organization. For a procurement department to…
Performance Appraisals : the Continued Debate
HiringOnce a year you wake up with what can only be described as butterflies or a ball of knots in your stomach depending on what you ate for breakfast mind racing, reminiscing over your accomplishments while simultaneously regretting all of the things you could have done better this year. Do you know what I am…
Master Procurement with Kindness
Functional Insights, Guest BlogThere I was, sitting in my manager’s office, having recently been promoted to a Purchasing Manager position being told, If you want to be successful in Procurement, you will need to be less nice and more aggressive. Dumbfounded, I couldn’t help but think his statement was absurd. My view on business has always been about building…