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Blue Bamboo Consulting

Facilitating Best Practice Procurement

Procurement is now, in many industries, the beating heart of most commercial organisations. In many businesses procurement is yielding significant commercial advantage, mitigating risk, saving money and creating agile, innovative supply chains.

Blue Bamboo is fortunate to have significant expertise in this field (see our Team profiles). We offer a range of performance diagnostics, consultancy and performance improvement interventions that have been tried and tested across many commercial structures, industry sectors and business profiles. Much of our work focuses on improving Leadership Performance, working with CPO′s and Heads of Procurement to develop their vision and competencies.

Blue Bamboo’s performance improvement includes:

Coaching CPO′s & Heads of Procurement to improve personal effectiveness
Advising on organisational restructuring
Establishing technical and behavioural competency frameworks, specifically related to procurement professionals
Facilitating an alignment of procurement goals, values and strategies with the wider business
Facilitating the development of flexible, responsive and co-operative communications – within SLT’s , operating teams, internal stakeholders, suppliers and the Board
Helping to establish a Model of Purchasing Excellence, based on years of experience in both blue chip and SME businesses

“Ed is a highly skilled trainer, coach and Master Practitioner in NLP. He and his team are very adept at developing and running training programmes for our recruitment business which have made a material difference to how our people work and deliver - and our clients tell us that they are noticing the difference! I′ve also invited Blue Bamboo to work with candidates on outplacement programmes. The Blue Bamboo team are so skilled at what they do and have proved to be an essential part of the difference that makes the difference within our business.”

[M.D. Recruitment Business]