Share This on Linked In A recent article in Information Week on getting started with your energy efficiency program had a few good tips that are worth sharing. Identify current power usage Use real data which measures power utilization on an hourly basis. Contact your [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in Strategy + Business that discussed a recent survey that found that information technology is a neglected asset in joint ventures, besides unearthing a very disturbing trend, attempted to outline the major roadblocks to IT recognition and some ways to overcome those roadblocks. [...]
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Share This on Linked In I read a very startling article this weekend on SupplyManagement.com. A recent study across 550 financial directors and CFOs from large organizations in the US, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France found that only 17% of CFOs believe procurement heads deserve a [...]
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Share This on Linked In Last week, SupplyManagement.com published a 5-page article on E-Sourcing Made Easy. Done right, e-Sourcing IS Easy, and if it takes 5 pages for you to make that point, you’re doing it wrong. Especially when you spend 5 pages explaining that: among some people, [...]
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Share This on Linked In The ultimate key to supply chain success is having a great team. More than anything else, supply chain is about people who implement the processes, use the technology, and use the physical assets you have to create value that consumers will buy. That’s why this blog keeps [...]
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Louis Gerstner recently said that short-term investment gains should be taxed at 80%. It’s one of the most logical things I’ve ever read. But such a logical plan to fix what’s wrong with our greedy economy by taking us back to good old-fashioned long term thinking would likely be the end of Wall [...]
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Share This on Linked In I know this is Norman Katz’s area of expertise, and while I thoroughly intend to allow him to lead most of the discussion on this topic in his new column here on Sourcing Innovation, ISM’s e-Side Supply Management recently ran a great article by Robin B. Gray Jr., [...]
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Share This on Linked InEditor’s Note: This post is from regular contributor Norman Katz, Sourcing Innovation’s resident expert on supply chain fraud and supply chain risk. Catch up on his new column in the archive.When do you draw the line between a person (or persons) being guilty of fraud versus the entire organization? [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article on the Disciplinarians’ Dilemma in CFO Magazine noted that nearly all CFOs today have a mandate to conserve cash and that a recent McKinsey study found that 40% of companies surveyed are actively seeking to reduce research-and-development costs as well as the [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in Industry Week on portfolio management in a down economy did a great job of summarizing all the mistakes dumb companies make in a down economy in blind efforts to conserve cash. As I have said before, and as the author [...]
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