Blogs tagged future of business

Future of Procurement – People are our most valuable asset A digital transformation is taking hold around the world, and new business models are transforming entire industries. Uber and Didicar, for instance, disrupting the taxi business... Read More »

In my first article The Future of Procurement – One Perspective I discussed how procurement goes digital and concluded that the CPO might evolve to a Chief Value Officer to create impact and drive measurable value for a company. Most... Read More »

Disruptive trends in technology are changing the function as we know it today. Procurement is fast evolving into a more strategic and value generating function. This blog is designed to spark a lively discussion among those who are driving this... Read More »

It’s an industry based on precedent that sometimes stretches back hundreds of years, and its practitioners rely on terminology coined in a language long dead, but make no mistake – law firms are making an open-and-shut case for the... Read More »

It’s a difficult time for sales people. Not because margins are tight or the economy is still recovering, but because the digital revolution has fundamentally and permanently changed sales as a discipline. Today’s accessibility of... Read More »

Change is inevitable, but it comes quicker to some parts of the business than others. The tipping point is usually when business pain points and pressure outweigh the status quo. A good example is HR which is currently under significant pressure to... Read More »

With the exception of mathematicians, we humans can’t handle big numbers. The blame falls squarely on our ancestors. To survive, our knuckle-dragging ancient forebears needed to count how many people to feed, and estimate if enough animals... Read More »

Eid al-Adha or Bakr-Id is that time of the year when the Bakri Bazaars (Market place where Lambs are sold) come to life. Sacrificial Lambs are bought and sold in large numbers. The bleating sound of these animals make up the background score, while... Read More »

Now that the U.S. labor market has added more than 1.2 million jobs so far this year and the unemployment rate continues to decline, many of you may be taking the leap to look for your learning culturenext career move. Whether it’s with a new... Read More »

Nelson Mandela once said: Perhaps the most important inheritance of our new democratic South Africa has been the rebirth of the dignity of the individual – for without dignity, freedom has a bland taste. For two sisters in Cape Town this... Read More »