Nicolas Walden
Nicolas Walden
TITLE : SENIOR DIRECTOR COMPANY : THE HACKETT GROUP
Nicolas Walden is a Senior Director at The Hackett Group . Walden leads one of the company ’ s service lines called ‘ Procurement Executive Advisory Membership Programmes ’. He has been with the Hackett Group for 14 years , but started his career in finance before moving to procurement .
“ In the last decade I have seen more excitement around proven procurement capabilities and effectiveness than I ’ ve seen in a long time ”
ROMAN BELOTSERKOVSKIY PARTNER , MCKINSEY & COMPANY
At the Hackett Group Walden works solely with the leadership team , utilising research and world-class performance insights to work with leadership teams to de-risk and accelerate their transformation plans . The Hackett Group typically works with large and multinational procurement teams .
for strategic procurement and investment in technology in the past , but I think , while the gap is still pretty wide , this is starting to change .”
“ But it ’ s not only technology ,” says Walden . “ It is an entire business change of ‘ where do we need to get to in two or three years ?’ Yes we need some new tools , but we also need new roles , new processes , maybe a new operating model , and new data . Success in terms of transformation relies on investing ahead of the efficiencies . ‘ We are doing this because it ’ s going to give us some benefits .’ Too many organisations start to chase down the business case too quickly ,
68 January 2022