As you know, keeping your business top of mind with your ideal customer will help you be their first choice when they’re in the market for what you offer. But cutting through the noise to reach your ideal customers and …

Leadership in Supply Chain  by Larry Berglund, SCMP, MBA, FSCMA Presentations Plus Training & Consulting Inc. Ideas are easy. Implementing them is the challenge. Leadership in organizational structures is fleeting. Leaders take on the tough tasks and provide a vision …

While Canadian procurement is rooted in our unique legal structure, we are among many jurisdictions in the world that ascribe to fair, open and transparent competitive procurement processes. As we know, organizations that follow these guidelines tend to get better …

Building Trust in the Absence of Integrity by Gordon White, theconflictjourney.com I wish to introduce both a general definition of trust I have formulated and the general idea of trusting before looking at some of its variations: trust (def): a …

Living Wage Policies in the Supply Chain: It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game by Larry Berglund, SCMP, MBA, FSCMA Presentations Plus Training & Consulting Inc. “If we pay contractors who work for our municipality a living wage, it will cost the …

A Verbal Contract Is Not Worth the Paper It Is Printed On NECI clients will be familiar with this mantra, used in many of our courses and online offerings. Although it can take additional time to document agreements properly and …

From simply involving disadvantaged populations to help with aspects of service and program delivery to the public, to the complex, interrelated obligations of Social Impact Bonds, the concept of social impact investing is gaining considerable traction in Canada and globally. …

By: Maureen Sullivan, LLB, CTP NECI President, Legal Editor & Publisher Facing today’s economic and political pressures to demonstrate how they are doing more with less, procurement professionals can find themselves pushed into giving short shrift to procurement planning. In …

Larry Berglund, SCMP, MBA, FSCMA Author | Good Planets are Hard to Buy  Principal | Presentations Plus Training and Consulting Inc. Admittedly, procurement policies may not sound exciting but they are critical to drive value in any organization. Policies are the means …

No matter how hard you work or how many brilliant ideas you may have, if you can’t connect with the people who work around you, your professional life will suffer. How you are perceived by your manager and coworkers plays …