Working in partnership
Huthwaite, in association with University of Bradford, conducted research into the changing role of the procurement professional. The research resulted in some fascinating insights which can be downloaded below.
Cognisco, a leading provider of intelligent competency-based employee assessments and Huthwaite International are working in partnership to provide customer service assessment to measure and improve the performance of customer services advisors when interacting with customers. Evidence of the success of this partnership can be found in the client case study below.
Youth charity The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award inspires over 275,000 young people per year to develop skills, fitness, compassion and initiative, and gives young people of every background the opportunity to succeed. It relies on donations and needs to raise over £100,000 per week to continue its vital work. For more information see below. At Huthwaite International we are delighted to join like-minded clients such as Dell Corporation, CSC, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, and organisations such as Cadbury Foundation and Vodafone UK Foundation, in gaining Charter Membership for our valued contribution to the DofE. We take great pride in being able to offer our services to DofE staff in the pursuit of such a worthy cause.
www.dofe.org
In the first study of its kind, Huthwaite International and IACCM benchmarked the negotiation maturity of the world’s largest organisations. The unique research, involving 124 buy- and sell-side practitioners, found that negotiation performance improvement is being ignored, neglected or ineffectively addressed in many companies. Findings from the research can be downloaded below.
The Institute of Sales & Marketing Management (ISMM) is the worldwide representative body for sales people. Founded in 1911 to promote standards of excellence in sales and sales management and to enhance the status and profile of sales as a profession, the ISMM has been the authoritative voice of selling and the custodian of sales standards, ethics and best practice for over 35 years. In support of its membership Huthwaite are pleased to be a sponsor of the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Awards and to present at the Successful Selling Conference.
www.ismm.co.uk/events_successfulselling.php
www.ismm.co.uk/events_besma.php
Huthwaite is proud to be member of the Management Consultancies Association (MCA), the representative body for management consultancy firms in the UK. The MCA’s 46 member firms comprise 60% of the UK consulting industry, employ more than 30,000 consultants and work with over 90 of the FTSE 100 companies and almost all parts of the public sector. The MCA’s tough entry criteria and rigorous Code of Practice mean that MCA member companies are widely acknowledged to provide high-quality services to their clients. Huthwaite are the only consultancy in our field to have been accepted as a member of the MCA.
The MCA report Diversity and choice in management consulting explores the value of different types and sizes of firms that clients can choose to work with. Expertise, it says, is what defines consulting firms, not their size. The report demonstrates the skills and expertise of specialist consultancies through a series of case studies, including Huthwaite.
Management Consultancies Association (MCA)
Huthwaite has been very involved in the launch of the MCA’s Consultancy Buyers Forum, which engages directly the MCA with buyers of consulting services. Consultancy is a very different type of purchase to most other spend areas and the buying process can often become complex and contentious. The forum creates an environment where consulting firms, clients and procurement professionals can openly discuss these issues and develop and promote best practice.
Consultancy Buyers Forum
Huthwaite International has helped to develop an educational game for young people. The game, called S.O.P.H.I.E is designed to further the aims of the Foundation by creating respect, understanding and tolerance of different sub-cultures in the UK. S.O.P.H.I.E stands for Stamp Out Prejudice Hatred and Intolerance Everywhere. Sophie Lancaster was a young Goth who was tragically beaten to death in a Lancashire park in 2007 simply because of the way she was dressed. For further information on S.O.P.H.I.E., please vist their website.
UBM is a global live media and B2B communications, marketing service and data provider who organise Award events which help the nation celebrate its best such as the National Business Awards, and industry events such as the Service Management Conference which inform and advise on a particular market. Huthwaite works closely with UBM on a number of events. For example, we are proud to be headline sponsors of the National Sales Awards and have done so for over 5 years. We are also regular presenters at the National Service Management Conference.
www.nationalsalesawards.com
www.servicemanagement.co.uk
www.ubm.com