Sourcing.Guru's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to Sourcing.Guru: Wisdom of Leaders!The intent of creating this series of experts-led conversation is offering a knowledge based environment for peer-to-peer learning and mentorship, thereby improving business outcomes in the long run.The focus continues to remain around the levers of analytics, automation, and global talent in the context of global sourcing advisory.Whether you are a business leader or preparing to be one, this series is for you.
Listen to our Expert wisdom episode. Here, John Wei talks about the pace of rapid change in the external environment, organization, handling innovation, people , technology on a whole and more wisdom !
Lets hear about his early days from college to his journey from being a technical developer to lead architect to chief operating officer role at a property trade software. Fast forward into join ventures and now with Comerica Bank !
In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Gopalan Natarajan (GN), Global Head of GBS at PMI on what makes leaders successful. GN also has some very practical advice for young professionals.
In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Gopalan Natarajan (GN), Global Head of GBS at Philip Morris International about his current role and career trajectory.
In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Gopalan Natarajan (GN), Global Head of GBS at PMI on the GBS journey to 2025: challenges, opportunities, and the way forward.
In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Dawn Tiura, CEO, Sourcing Industry Group who reiterates that insatiable curiosity is what makes a professional. She goes on to say that it is people’s support that makes leaders and good leaders are ones that embrace diversity and diverse thought.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Dawn Tiura, CEO, Sourcing Industry Group on SIG, their focus on education and elevation of the office of the CPO, and her professional career trajectory.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Debi Hamill, CEO of IAOP on how IAOP is helping its members through their several initiatives and how they aim to make young professionals future ready.
She tells Atul Vashistha, Chairman of Neo Group, how changing technology has made real time readiness of knowledge and information that much more pertinent and requisite for professionals to be business ready.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Debi Hamill, CEO of IAOP on how IAOP is creating value in real time for its members. IAOP offers opportunities for connection and collaboration through resources and leadership. Debi also shares how the drive for automation has to go hand in hand with education. She goes on to share why ESG and impact sourcing are critical.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, Dawn Tiura, CEO, Sourcing Industry Group discloses how SIG is pushing CPOs to stay ahead of the trends curve. She shares how the SIG university certification on Intelligent Automation is educating about automation for the right things and identifying niche areas that can be improved.
Dawn makes important observations on the human impact of sourcing and how global sourcing is improving economies and changing lives.
She goes on to say that investment in third-party risk is the need of the hour. The pandemic has revealed how risk with your supplier's supplier and their supplier further can affect your business.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Shuchita Singh, Senior Director, Enterprise Strategies at AbbVie on how sourcing goes beyond contracting and is essentially a management principle. She advises young professionals that growth does not always have to be upward; Growing in breadth offers several transferable skills.
On a personal front, she strives to see the big picture by integrating sourcing requirements and timelines with business goals.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Debi Hamill, CEO of IAOP on IAOP endeavours and her role as CEO. She shares the initiatives of IAOP to bring professionals together.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, Shuchita Singh, Senior Director, Enterprise Strategies at AbbVie talks to us about her priorities in the short term and how preparedness helped them stay ahead of the pandemic to a large extent.
She tells us how her team is driving automation to keep contracts alive internally and with suppliers. She is asking suppliers to lean in to move beyond contracts towards meaningful relationships.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Shuchita Singh, Senior Director, Enterprise Strategies at AbbVie on her career trajectory.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, Kathleen Terjesen, Head, Global Business Services, Bose discloses that her short term priorities are safety- both cyber and personnel. She also wants to harness the data within GBS to provide insights for business action. Kathleen says that Bose is prioritising highest areas of impact over getting to scale.
Kathleen also touches on how talent is a key focus area for Bose and their two pronged strategy is getting employees aligned with company vision and offering clarity on expectations and career mapping.
In the premier episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Steve Rudderham, Head of Global Business Services at AkzoNobel. As someone who has worked on both sides of the relationship, in BPO and now GBS, he tells Atul Vashistha, Chairman of Neo Group, why he made the transition and his priorities of process transformation and people agenda.
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In the last section of this episode, Steve Rudderham, Head of Global Business Services at AkzoNobel tells us how networking with GBS leaders and peers can be powerful learning. He also has some very practical advice for anyone considering a career in GBS.
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In this episode of Sourcing Guru, Steve Rudderham, Head of Global Business Services at AkzoNobel delves into the challenges and their potential solutions for the GBS sector:
- Talent- hiring, training, retaining, is the key challenge for the industry.
- Adapting to the pace of change through agility- Hiring and empowering people across all levels in the organisation.
- Selling Automation internally in bite sized chunks to ease skeptics into acceptance.
Rudderham discloses how suppliers can elevate to becoming trusted partners by sharing their wealth of experience and bringing benchmarking and innovation.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Kathleen Terjesen, Head, Global Business Services, Bose on the future of GBS and the transition of GBS at Bose from Process Prime to Service Prime.
Kathleen shares that she is always learning from peers, SMEs and online. She advises young GBS professionals to strive to become enablers for their customers.
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In this episode of Sourcing.Guru, we hear from Kathleen Terjesen, Head, Global Business Services at Bose on her career trajectory of starting in Accounting and moving through Finance, Creatives/Events and HR to now heading GBS. She also explains what GBS covers at Bose.
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