Tension transforms – but only if you understand how to use it to your advantage.
Whether caused by issues with people (conflicts within leadership and team dynamics), processes (inefficiencies in workflow and procedure) or prioritization (challenges measuring impact and effort), friction points in your procurement and supply chain functions – linked end-to-end from customer value delivery through operations, capital projects and the supply network – will almost always lead to the formation of four core tensions.
If left unaddressed, these tensions – which are extremely difficult to navigate when driving and sustaining critical change – will stunt progress and trap value in your business.
Our strategy transforms tension into a catalyst for change, using a holistic and innovative approach that redefines excellence and propels your business forward through uncertainty.
Our four-point strategy is designed to:
We dig deep to uncover progress-blocking internal and external tensions. By understanding these critical pain points, we set the stage for lasting transformation.
We challenge the status quo to inspire a fresh perspective, helping you uncover new pathways to value creation and turning procurement from a cost center into a strategic asset.
We craft cross-functional roadmaps aligned with your long-term goals, ensuring a comprehensive and forward-thinking plan with impact that extends beyond procurement.
We prevent forever transformations, focusing on making smarter decisions early and establishing high-performing, sustainable processes that drive lasting value.
Our exclusive digital tools put our strategies in motion, helping diagnose and identify the unique expression of tensions your people face. They clear a path to making your operations run smarter, faster, and more effectively.
Focuses on optimizing your organization’s structure to enhance change management and performance. Evaluates organizational design, governance, and decision-making processes to improve collaboration and decision quality, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and optimizing value delivery.
Enhances your organization’s performance by addressing the psycho-emotional dimensions of team dynamics. Diagnoses and enhances factors that affect an individual or team’s capacity for change, improving emotional security and trust to foster a high-performance culture.
Builds on ISAT and ILEAD to enhance your organization’s capacity for rapid, sustainable change. Improves collaborative leadership, cultivates cross-functional teamwork, and accelerates innovation capture to ensure that people and processes are aligned for rapid transformation.
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Focuses on optimizing your organization’s structure to enhance change management and performance. Evaluates organizational design, governance, and decision-making processes to improve collaboration and decision quality, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and optimizing value delivery.
Strategic alignment diagnostic
Scenario planning and decision support
Decision quality assessment
Enhances your organization’s performance by addressing the psycho-emotional dimensions of team dynamics. Diagnoses and enhances factors that affect an individual or team’s capacity for change, improving emotional security and trust to foster a high-performance culture.
Emotional safety assessment
Strategic employee alignment diagnostic
Emotional agility and resilience toolkit
Builds on ISAT and ILEAD to enhance your organization’s capacity for rapid, sustainable change. Improves collaborative leadership, cultivates cross-functional teamwork, and accelerates innovation capture to ensure that people and processes are aligned for rapid transformation.
Innovation and change readiness diagnostic
Co-elevation assessment
Trust and team dynamics analyzer