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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs. They have now moved from largely being a reporting exercise, to being a business strategy. With all these discussions, research, and brainstorming, many things were a blur and much of the research and thought leadership has melded together in my mind.

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This is NOT thought leadership, it’s practical talk about Supplier Value Management

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The always astute Pierre Mitchell from Spend Matters recently called out an unnamed solution provider for “trying to create some thought leadership about upstream value creation and downstream value capture.” Let’s get busy working on Supplier Value Management. If so, in my (imperfect?)

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Raft Names William ‘Bill’ Bal as Growth SVP, Danielle McCoy as Chief People Officer

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Government technology company Raft has appointed business development executive William “Bill” Bal as senior vice president of growth and human resources executive Danielle McCoy as chief people officer.

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Booz Allen Invests in Space Technology Company Quindar

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The strategic funds offered to Quindar by Booz Allen’s venture capital organization will focus on programming and automating satellite operations through Booz Allen’s velocity, leadership and technology, or VoLT, business strategy, the McLean, Virginia-based company […]

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This is NOT Thought Leadership, it’s Practical Talk About Supplier Value Management

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The always astute Pierre Mitchell from Spend Matters recently called out an unnamed solution provider for “trying to create some thought leadership about upstream value creation and downstream value capture.” Let’s get busy working on Supplier Value Management. If so, in my (imperfect?)

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Thought Leadership: Knowledge – The Secret to Winning Fed Contracts for Prime Contractors

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And with consensus, execution of business strategy becomes easier, and eagerness to address the customer higher. The heavy burden of owning a non-core business function can become a bottomless expense pit and can be devastating.

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The Human Side of Zero Trust (E121)

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Featured Speakers: Akiba Saeedi × Akiba Saeedi Vice President, IBM Security Federal Akiba Saeedi is Vice President, IBM Security Federal where she is responsible for all aspects of business strategy and growth of our cybersecurity business in the US Federal market.

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