Miguel Cossio is a Procurement Research Director at Gartner who focuses on helping procurement leaders deliver greater value by adapting to the latest trends in supplier collaboration and innovation, performance management, and sustainable procurement. In this conversation, he discusses why supplier collaboration strategies fail and what you can do about it, so tune in and find out more in this latest episode of What The Duck?! MOMENTS TO DUCK AROUNDMARK: IMPROVING ONE PART IS NOT ENOUGH“the three things I typically recommend companies tracking Are One. And it could be one of them, or the three of them at once, but one is doing a voice of the supplier survey where you're actually asking suppliers, what are the things that we're doing right? What are the things we're doing wrong?”MARK: UNDERSTAND YOUR WORK HOLISTICALLY“Technology is not a key success factor, right? If you don't have the technology, you're doomed, No, but it can definitely help, and it can definitely help from a scaling perspective, and I usually say this, because a lot of people are like, well, we don't have money to invest in this, you don't have to invest in you just have to invest time, put together a strategy you like, bring some stakeholders and then just start doing with you don't have to spend millions, right on.” Connect with Miguel and learn what he’s been duckin’ around with:Miguel Cossio | Gartner | Gartner.com Connect with Sarah and find out more about what the duck she’s up toLinkedIn | Twitter | SourceDay | SourceDay.com Had fun with the podcast? Leave us a like, share our content, and subscribe! See you soon on the next episode of What The Duck?!