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AOP Podcast Business Alignment Category & Skill Development Category Management

September 26, 2022

[Pod] Improving the Flexibility of your Category Management Skills w/ Steve Trussell

“The first step is answering, ‘What are we trying to accomplish as a company?’ Sometimes that’s the hardest question to…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Digitization Procurement Transformation

September 22, 2022

Mastermind LIVE Session Spotlight: Rethinking Your 80/20 to Achieve the Art of the Possible

Procurement has long managed spend, implemented tech, and committed resources based on the 80/20 rule. But given how we’ve matured…

Kelly Barner

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Digitization Sourcing & Contracting

September 15, 2022

How does the employee experience affect procurement’s impact?

“If only the business would involve us sooner…” How many times have procurement professionals found themselves behind the 8 ball,…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Leadership Procurement Transformation

September 8, 2022

Getting the ‘People Part’ Right: A Sourcing Hero Conversation with Thomas Siersbæk Heller-Njor

Earlier this year I was joined on The Sourcing Hero podcast by Thomas Siersbæk Heller-Njor. He is currently the Founder…

Kelly Barner

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AOP Podcast Business Alignment Leadership Talent Management

September 5, 2022

[Pod] Magic v. Logic: The Power of Storytelling w/ Simon Geale

“The average person has 6,200 thoughts a day, and probably about 5,000 of those are going through your head in…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Leadership Procurement Transformation

August 25, 2022

Can a focus on procurement experience unlock our latent potential?

If you’re in the customer-facing part of the business, you’re all about experience. There’s even an acronym for it, CX. …

Helen Mackenzie

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AOP Podcast Business Alignment Digitization Procurement Transformation

August 22, 2022

[Pod] Crossover from The Sourcing Hero: Life Hacks for Driving Employee Engagement w/ Ashley Sieb

“When you’re trying to engage a community that you serve in any kind of communication effort, it needs to be…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Sourcing & Contracting Supplier Management

August 18, 2022

Who Do Patents – and Contracts – Protect?

I recently had the opportunity to interview Wen Xie, an intellectual property attorney, about the World Trade Organization’s decision to…

Kelly Barner

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AOP Podcast Business Alignment Digitization Procurement Transformation

August 15, 2022

[Pod] Digital Procurement Is Not Easy: Don’t Go It Alone w/ Anthony Mignogna and Claire Sexton

“‘Go live’ is not a business outcome. Because there is a lack of clarity as to what the target business…

Philip Ideson

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AOP Blog Business Alignment Category & Skill Development Leadership

August 4, 2022

AOP’s Philip Ideson Featured in HBR Paper on Strategic Workforce Planning

Procurement has to focus on driving business outcomes, and this is just as true in the case of talent as…

Kelly Barner

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Business Alignment

[Pod] Improving the Flexibility of your Category Management Skills w/ Steve Trussell

Mastermind LIVE Session Spotlight: Rethinking Your 80/20 to Achieve the Art of the Possible

How does the employee experience affect procurement’s impact?

Getting the ‘People Part’ Right: A Sourcing Hero Conversation with Thomas Siersbæk Heller-Njor

[Pod] Magic v. Logic: The Power of Storytelling w/ Simon Geale

Can a focus on procurement experience unlock our latent potential?

[Pod] Crossover from The Sourcing Hero: Life Hacks for Driving Employee Engagement w/ Ashley Sieb

Who Do Patents – and Contracts – Protect?

[Pod] Digital Procurement Is Not Easy: Don’t Go It Alone w/ Anthony Mignogna and Claire Sexton

AOP’s Philip Ideson Featured in HBR Paper on Strategic Workforce Planning

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