WELCOME TO SMART BROWN DOG
Smart Management Consultancy
Smart Solutions
Smart Brown Dog is the smart management consultancy. Our consultants have broad experience of business growth and transformation with a particular focus on:
Supply chain management consultancy and training, Business growth and SMART marketing and winning sales by smarter selling to Procurement teams
We bring together experienced and talented people who love to work with businesses and organisations. We harness the top dog ideas from multiple disciplines and sectors, in order to drive innovation and value through smart planning knowledge sharing and our hands-on approach.
Our extensive experience of leading major companies through strategic sourcing programmes has given us an unrivaled knowledge of sales cycles. This is available in our unique Inside Track program providing deep insight to sales teams around strategic procurement approaches and how to counter them.
Our smart approach to strategic marketing has delivered outstanding success both in the private and public sector and our approach to management consultancy is flexible and nimble, so we can react to your business’ needs and wants.
The Difference
We are focussed on bringing fresh insight and new ways of working to critical areas of business. Our top dog experience in the fields of supply chain management, strategic sales, marketing and change management is unrivalled. We relish the opportunity to ‘translate’ technical subject matter into learning programs that are both informative AND engaging for all involved.
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Visit our blog to take a walk on the wild side; it’s full of strategic sales insight, best practice procurement info and marketing know-how.
Who we are
Our pedigree
We have a very strong procurement pedigree. We’ve been working in this arena for over 113 dog years (that’s 25 years to us humans).
flexible and nimble
Our approach
We work in a made-to-measure way; this may be through extensive consultancy programs, small discussions, or anything in between.
What we know
Knowledge is power
Our deep knowledge of complex procurement processes means we know how to engineer them for maximum efficiencies, and how to sell into them.
Smart Insights
Apple, Asimov and Creativity
The whole arena of creativity is beset with a central challenge: how do we get better at creativity? This is something which has taxed and challenged a whole series of people for a huge amount of time, and has also delivered polar opposite views in approach.
In the recent interview with Jony Ive, the design legend at Apple, he provides an insight into a whole group of issues which impact on creativity, including the importance of personal influences and research, and how small groups bring a lot of value to the creativity process.
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What should Sales know about Procurement?
Sales teams, in critical parts of the overall sales process, need to address the requirements of the buying organisation. If the way in which the buying organisation works has changed, there’s a natural need to understand the implications of that change.
Where category management is being used by the buying organisation, then there is an even greater need to get the proposal to work, as the consequences of category management processes are often about reducing supplier numbers, consolidation and concentration of activity. There is a real danger of being excluded from accounts for years.
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