A facilitated series of workshops designed specifically for your organization to determine, identify and prioritize the categories the organization will pursue in order to secure the optimum value and advantage, and to put the required governance in place for success. Designed to maximize the impact by utilizing the knowledge and insight of key individuals within the company with experience of the organization’s current spend and suppliers, this workshop provides a guided journey to structuring a new strategic roadmap for the short to medium term.
The program comprises a series of workshops tailored specifically to respond to your organizational situation and goals:
Defining, segmenting and prioritizing categories – Designed to be run with typically 5-7 of your most senior or experienced individuals equipped with, if possible, any spend data you might have, together with a knowledge of what the company is trying to achieve. Initially the workshop takes the team through a carefully facilitated process to determine or validate category scope and definitions to create a discrete list of market facing categories and the level at which categories will be worked on. Using our multi-dimensional category opportunity analysis tool, the agreed categories are systematically evaluated to determine and agree those that have the potential to contribute the greatest value and what might be required to realize this. Finally, we identify the priorities for action and agree a short to medium term roadmap.
The facilitated Category Segmentation & Opportunity Analysis workshop can deliver exceptional results and provide impactful strategic direction and planning in just one or two days. With the right people assembled and some good basic data, this single workshop can achieve the same or better results as entire programs of work by large consulting firms. Category segmentation and opportunity analysis is typically deployed as part of a wider governance approach. Workshop duration is as agreed and according to specific objectives or scale of work involved.
Determining and putting in place governance – Designed to be run with those in leadership positions on your most senior staff, we work through the different dimensions of the governance required to enable and make category management a success using our proven 5P approach. These workshops enable you to develop the primary outputs and arrangements needed to implement category management, including a full roadmap for the next 18 months.
