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Your Professional Development Report
Your Professional Development Report is the place for you to tell us about your development experiences and learning, and the way they’ve impacted your practice.
We are also interested in your own and two stakeholders’ perspectives of your strengths and areas for development.
Please note that there are three sections to complete:
Reflection on your learning
Your strengths and development areas
Stakeholder Feedback – to be completed by two stakeholders of your choice
Reflection on your learning
Please note that there are two questions to answer in this section. Please scroll down to ensure that you complete all the required elements.
The bullet points under each question are an indication of what we’re looking for. To give yourself the best chance of success, please ensure you respond to each bullet in your answers.
When we talk about ‘professional development experiences and activities’, we mean any learning you’ve experienced. It could be formal learning such as a webinar or training, or a collaboration session you’ve been a part of at work. It may be something you’ve read, or a discussion with colleagues or your wider network, or collaborating with peers at a conference. Or it could be learning which you’ve had as part of your role, such as leading a new approach to people practice, research, or in-depth learning about new sectors when working with new client organisations.
Describe a range of specific professional development experiences and / or activities you have undertaken recently (within the last five years). What did you learn?
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400 words
How will these development experiences / activities change your professional practice in the future?
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200 words
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- This business report has been used for evaluating the category and contract management in Eco2Solar Company.
- In particular, Eco2Solar operates to improve their project management (PM) and Cost Management (CM) as part of their category management has been evaluated.
- The areas of focus has included an evaluation of requirements for initiating and preparing category management, strategic and conventional sourcing process and role in contract management, tools and techniques for mapping categories of direct and indirect expenditure.
- From the findings obtained, innovative measures for improving the supply chain in light of categories and category management has been recommended.
- Further, in this business report, the contract administration and contract management in case of category management has similarly been evaluated in context of category management this is with assessment of risks and implementation of risk management techniques in contracts being reviewed in context of category management.
- In order to appreciate the best practice in category and contract management in the selected Eco2Solar construction spend area, use of quantitative and desk research has been pursued to obtain relevant data.
- Additionally, different tools have been applied such as Mendelow Stakeholders analysis, CIPS Category Management Cycle, CIPS Contract Management Cycle, Suppliers positioning, PESTLE analysis and SWOT analysis.
- Considering this business report findings, Eco2Solar need to improve their approach for risk management and efficiency and effectiveness of category and contract management.
- From these finding, the stakeholders collaboration in Eco2Solar need to be improved which can be done by embrace of blockchain technologies.
- Also, by identifying their PS&M teams training and capacity development, they would be able to improve on their category management. In the contemporary procurement environment, the training and capacity development has been noted as the best practice to manage gaps in their operations. Also, the findings indicate the need for Eco2Solar to improve their category management of their construction spend by coming up with appropriate SLA’s agreement and KPIs while ensuring they capitalise on innovativeness.
- For the project management and cost management, this being a long-term investment would require an improved auditing. This can entail embrace of analytics to analyse and present contract management data and appropriate management strategy.
- The importance of improved collaboration is ensuring stakeholders active involvement and awareness on core decisions made as this could harness their practice, contribution and suggestions noted.
- By successfully pursuing stakeholder analysis, it is important to maintain stakeholders relations which promote Eco2Solar organisation image and increase their market share.