The first time I saw Rearden Commerce’s application, I knew it would be the future of “personal” services Spend Management for employees at all levels within companies. In fact, I was so convinced of its future that I called Rearden’s playing field an up-tapped “Blue Ocean” of opportunity. But the trouble with Blue Oceans is [...]
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Debbie Wilson posted a blog on Cool Tools about 2006 being the “Year of the Blog”. In it she poses the question of why do people blog about this space and tries to answer it as well. Jason Busch and Doug Hudgeon have made stabs at this topic as well in the past, [...]
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Last month, the ISM awarded a number of individuals and organizations the R. Gene Richter Award for Leadership and Innovation in Supply Management. The recipients were primarily organizations that had demonstrated massive improvements in their sourcing and procurement functions which came about through concentrated improvement efforts. These improvements were the direct result of [...]
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As we grow closer to Coupa’s inaugural launch of eProcurement, we’ve been encouraged by early feedback from interested prospects, partners, and friends. Thanks to all of you who’ve spent an hour or two diving deep on the functionality via your browser, Webex, or in person.
Sharing new product innovations & then honing them through direct customer [...]
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Debbie Wilson, of Cool Tools fame, has agreed to join Gartner. Read more here. This is great news for Gartner, but I’ll miss the informal nature of Debbie’s blogs and commentary on her own site. Perhaps Debbie’s joining Gartner will be as much Gartner joining Debbie, but somehow I think that’s wishful thinking. Still, [...]
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Many readers have written to me in the past few weeks, and I’ve been horrible in responding. I wanted to take a few virtual lines to apologize. I’ve been slammed on the work and personal front, and it’s all I can do to keep the blog entries updated (which is my top concern). Regardless, if [...]
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Sipping a ‘66 Haut Brion the other night with a good friend to celebrate a recent birth in the family and reading this story further reinforced my belief that it’s a good thing that Europe still has a wonderful culture. Because with apologies to Thomas Friedman, if I could short France (and the rest of [...]
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I’ll admit that I’m a little behind on some of my readings, but I will say that after reading the recent article “Final Thoughts: Ethics and Procurement” from the Apr/May issues of Supply and Demand Chain Executive, I thought it was time for another (short) post on ethics. Although this isn’t Iasta’s first post, [...]
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Thanks again to Doug Smock for igniting the discussion around product costing and the convergence of design and supply.ÂÂ
I agree with Doug: Harley-Davidson was indeed a supply management innnovator before its time. As a senior editor at Purchasing magazine in the pre-Internet boom, I had the opportunity to do a cover story on Harley’s advanced [...]
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Last month, the ISM awarded a number of individuals and organizations the R. Gene Richter Award for Leadership and Innovation in Supply Management. The recipients were primarily organizations that had demonstrated massive improvements in their sourcing and procurement functions which came about through concentrated improvement efforts. These improvements were the direct result of [...]
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