Joanne Summers's guest appearances

Joanne Summers

The Next 100 Days Podcast

Michael Bungay Stanier

Phil Jones

Casanova Brooks

Duncan Wardle

Robert Wright

Mike Morrison

Dan Wells

Jason Van Orden

Meryl Johnston

John Davidson

Adam Witty

Mary Shores

Chris Martin

Anthony Evans

Peter Osborne

OwlTail

Purchasing - How To Add C-Suite Expertise To Your BusinessJoanne Summers offers purchasing expertise. Her business, BuyerBeSure.com helps businesses with virtual purchasing expert placements. The end result is fabulous for her clients. Listen to the podcast as Joanne explains what they can do for your procurement activities.You get the benefit of having a C-suite executive in your business for as little as a few hours per month.Here is Joanne Explaining What BuyerBeSure is All Abouthttp://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BuyerBeSure-Video1.mp4BuyerBeSure.com enables clients to access really high caliber purchasing experts. This make them confident that their buying and contracts are right for them.Joanne focuses on small to medium sized businesses that have between 50 and 250 employees. Otherwise, these businesses just would not be able to access this kind of skill level and add value to their businesses.What is Your Purchasing Expertise?Joanne is the youngest on a team of procurement or purchasing experts. So she modestly claims she has the least expertise! That said, Joanne has worked in procurement in big blue-chip companies for over 20 years! 10 years as a member of staff and another 10 years as a self-employed contractor.BuyerBeSure has a non-executive director plus a bank of cost effective procurement officers.It is scary, buy BuyerBeSure has 200 years of purchasing expertise!What is a Virtual Chief Procurement Officer?To make the services accessible to companies, BuyerBeSure delivers remotely. This keeps the cost of their service down. You'd expect that from talented procurement people wouldn't you? :)You don't need to have a full time procurement employee in your business. Her service is modular. Either a one-off service or a monthly service. This sort of depends on the size of the organisation in question.You don't have to pay a full time employee to bring the value you get. And you don't have to pay huge consultancy fees either. Now that is smart!How Do You Compare Against The Alternatives?Typically, consultancy fees would come in at £1,000 to £1,700 per day, and they'd be likely to invoice at least at half day rate. Normal consultants would be looking at multiple days, so for many businesses this is hugely cost-prohibitive.BuyerBeSure.com offers FIXED PRICE, LOW COST.The Virtual Chief Procurement Officer module would be delivered for around £1,300 - so a big price difference. What you get is real purchasing expertise, who buy in strongly to the client's plans and ethos.This is an investment to help businesses, without such expertise, to identify WHERE they can reduce cost and WHERE they can reduce risk. They also focus on up-skill your people too.How Long Are You There For That Price?For the Virtual Chief Procurement Officer, Joanne explains, that the service is delivered remotely. They will conduct a spend analysis. A big part of this is automated. They can then have an informed discussion with the business.The VCPO will do prep in advance of a board meeting to identify proactively where further opportunities exist. Like, expanding a site, or buying a new building. It is about being an active board member, so procurement activity can be properly harnessed.They would typically take LESS THAN A DAY.Assuming the board buy into this procurement expertise - other products would then be offered.The ABC of Procurement ProjectsThey consul-train people. This means they consult and train using the toolkits they provide. Doing things this way means they are light touch. That's because they are coaching rather than doing. It is sustainable because they are ups killing their clients. They look for ways to improve expertise.What Results Can You Expect?The delivered module will deliver value. The bigger danger is the organisation failing to re-use the toolkits and learning delivered after BuyBeSure has stepp...

Purchasing - How To Add C-Suite Expertise To Your Business Joanne Summers offers purchasing expertise. Her business, <a href="http://BuyerBeSure.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BuyerBeSure.com</a> helps businesses with virtual purchasing expert placements. The end result is fabulous for her clients. Listen to the podcast as Joanne explains what they can do for your procurement activities. You get the benefit of having a C-suite executive in your business for as little as a few hours per month. Here is Joanne Explaining What BuyerBeSure is All About <a href="http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BuyerBeSure-Video1.mp4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BuyerBeSure-Video1.mp4</a><a href="http://BuyerBeSure.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BuyerBeSure.com</a> enables clients to access really high caliber purchasing experts. This make them confident that their buying and contracts are right for them. Joanne focuses on small to medium sized businesses that have between 50 and 250 employees. Otherwise, these businesses just would not be able to access this kind of skill level and add value to their businesses. What is Your Purchasing Expertise? Joanne is the youngest on a team of procurement or purchasing experts. So she modestly claims she has the least expertise! That said, Joanne has worked in procurement in big blue-chip companies for over 20 years! 10 years as a member of staff and another 10 years as a self-employed contractor. BuyerBeSure has a non-executive director plus a bank of cost effective procurement officers. It is scary, buy BuyerBeSure has 200 years of purchasing expertise! What is a Virtual Chief Procurement Officer? To make the services accessible to companies, BuyerBeSure delivers remotely. This keeps the cost of their service down. You'd expect that from talented procurement people wouldn't you? :) You don't need to have a full time procurement employee in your business. Her service is modular. Either a one-off service or a monthly service. This sort of depends on the size of the organisation in question. You don't have to pay a full time employee to bring the value you get. And you don't have to pay huge consultancy fees either. Now that is smart! How Do You Compare Against The Alternatives? Typically, consultancy fees would come in at £1,000 to £1,700 per day, and they'd be likely to invoice at least at half day rate. Normal consultants would be looking at multiple days, so for many businesses this is hugely cost-prohibitive. <a href="http://BuyerBeSure.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BuyerBeSure.com</a> offers FIXED PRICE, LOW COST. The Virtual Chief Procurement Officer module would be delivered for around £1,300 - so a big price difference. What you get is real purchasing expertise, who buy in strongly to the client's plans and ethos. This is an investment to help businesses, without such expertise, to identify WHERE they can reduce cost and WHERE they can reduce risk. They also focus on up-skill your people too. How Long Are You There For That Price? For the Virtual Chief Procurement Officer, Joanne explains, that the service is delivered remotely. They will conduct a spend analysis. A big part of this is automated. They can then have an informed discussion with the business. The VCPO will do prep in advance of a board meeting to identify proactively where further opportunities exist. Like, expanding a site, or buying a new building. It is about being an active board member, so procurement activity can be properly harnessed. They would typically take LESS THAN A DAY. Assuming the board buy into this procurement expertise - other products would then be offered. The ABC of Procurement Projects They consul-train people. This means they consult and train using the toolkits they provide. Doing things this way means they are light touch. That's because they are coaching rather than doing. It is sustainable because they are ups killing their clients. They look for ways to improve expertise. What Results Can You Expect? The delivered module will deliver value. The bigger danger is the organisation failing to re-use the toolkits and learning delivered after BuyBeSure has stepp...

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