July 19, 2023
30 min Listen
Tracey Allen shares her secrets to overcoming imposter syndrome, building high-performing teams, and developing the leadership required to deliver a successful digital transformation.
Supply chain organizations are losing talent—fast.
While most departments suffered high levels of attrition during the Great Resignation period of the pandemic, “turnover is 33% higher in supply chain organizations compared to pre-pandemic levels,” according to Gartner,
With nearly half of employees saying they are open to leaving their jobs in a recent Gallup survey, the market for highly qualified talent remains tight.
As supply chain functions struggle to attract, hire and retain the uniquely skilled talent required to operate world-class networks, how should leaders adapt their approach to building the high-performing teams required to drive digital transformation success?
In this episode of Masters of Digital Transformation, we sit down with Tracey Allen, Vice President of IT Procurement at Nokia, to discuss how she’s developed the teams, leadership and talent uniquely suited to drive digital transformations in procurement throughout her career.
Tracey joins host Caleb Masters to cover:
- How she built her IT procurement team and unlocked their potential to deliver results while working remotely during the pandemic.
- Why listening and leading with empathy is essential to maximizing your team and department’s performance.
- Her approach to leveraging a unique strengths-based approach to coaching individuals within a high-performing team
About the authors
o9
The Digital Brain Platform
o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
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