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  • Paraglider © Shutterstock From gamekeeper to poacherHow can you prevent buyers leaving your company and using what they know 
to join a supplier 
to your business instead? And 
should you?
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Supply Business editor Rebecca Ellinor selects a recent article highlighting key considerations for global procurement and supply chain professionals.

Career articles

  • Rebecca Ellinor Taking calculated chances"CPOs have to take chances - after all, being innovative is to do something new", says Supply Business editor Rebecca Ellinor.
  • Failure to collaborate leads to talent shortageProcurement is among a number of business service areas suffering from serious deficits in talent and skills, a study has suggested.
  • Stress at workA look at the main factors contributing to stress at work.
  • Talking headsThey may excel in walking the talk, but how can CPOs talk the walk? Angeline Albert looks at how procurement teams are using communications experts to help promote their function.
  • 'The time was just right'Rebecca Ellinor speaks to six CPOs who stepped off the corporate ladder and lived to tell the tale.
  • 'My role is unique'With a career spanning everything from advertising to procurement, Brett Colbert is at home in the new role of CPO at MDC Partners, playing a leading role in agency pitches to clients in the advertising sector. He talks to Anna Scott.
  • Clever is no longer enoughWhen it comes to leadership, companies are now putting much greater emphasis on emotional intelligence. But how does this apply to procurement?
  • Benchmarking excellence: the votes are in A major survey of CPOs has thrown up some fascinating results. Ahead of publication in December, we invited 10 CPOs to discuss the initial revelations, covering centralisation, procurement's strategic position and communication.
  • Reaching the summit of cost cuttingCutting costs and increasing value has been at the centre of procurement's purpose for decades. While the goal remains broadly the same, the processes and tools it adopts to deliver it have changed and the function has adapted to fit the business environment of the day.
  • The final frontier for CPOsPrivate equity takeovers are increasingly common. Yet most practitioners are still in the dark about them and the huge opportunities they present for the profession
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