”Close The Gap” - Blog
Our podcast episodes as articles.
Functional Outsourcing: Your back-end is other companies’ front-end
Consider this: What if your highly skilled workforce could devote their energy solely to their unique capabilities, driving customer satisfaction and enhancing your bottom line? Imagine a scenario where innovative processes, products, and service solutions take centre stage, while routine, tactical tasks are seamlessly handled by specialized entities.
Is now, with the raise of machine learning and RPA, finally the opportune moment for companies to shed back-end activities?
Enjoy!
Leadership Turbocharged: Unleashing 21st Century KPI Mastery
Many businesses are still operating as if they are driving a car by solely glancing at the rearview mirror. Sounds absurd, right? Well, that's how most businesses operate. They rely on just on hindsight focused financial metrics with one months to a quarter delay.
How about a 21st century KPI Leadership System, where you'll have a clear view through the windshield with a dynamic heads-up display.
Enjoy!
Procurement - on ‘steroids’ or: improving margins - for real
The times when strategic sourcing was solely a procurement function topic, with the main focus on cost and supply base management, are long gone in most companies.
Today, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters or disruptions are happening far too often for a cost-based, multi-layered value chain.
While the issues getting more and more complex, and the speed of change is dizzying, our internal corporate coping mechanisms often stay as simple and inadequate as 20-30 years before.
So, what needs to change?