One week ago today, Spend Matters (“SM”) announced that it was limiting briefings to a one-hour-and-twenty-minute interval on Thursdays and a two-hour-and-30-minute interval on Fridays. SM stated that briefings would be limited to 40 minutes, including 10-15 minutes of introduction/background, the remaining time to be spent on “the presentation or announcement”. SM further stated that it requires reference contacts for a follow-up call, and that it is limiting follow-up demos to 30 minutes. While it is not Sourcing Innovation’s place to comment on the policies of …
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July 23rd, 2010 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous, Technology
One Million, Three Hundred and Seventeen Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty Five words later (including the words in this post), or Two Thousand and Thirty Nine posts later (which does not count well over a hundred guest posts on other blogs, including e-Sourcing Forum, Supply Excellence, Procurement Leaders, Deal Architect, 2 Sustain, and @ Risk), and Sourcing Innovation (SI) officially turns four. Although not an extraordinarily long time, even in net-time, it is exceptionally significant in blog-time, especially for a blog that posts twice a day, every day, 7/365. It was a fabulous year! Growth continued to …
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June 9th, 2010 | Posted in About, Sourcing Innovation
Doro: I Am What I Am The Dollyrots: Because I’m Awesome* *After what I did for you this week, you have to give me this one. …
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May 1st, 2010 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous, humour
I’m going to miss the Supply Chain Management Review. Ever since Doug Smock left Purchasing, I’ve regarded it as the best publication in the space. It’s delivered solid content month after month and year after year. While I’ll be the first to admit that there were probably too many publications competing in what is still a small space, and that Reed probably owned more than it could make profitable, it’s unfortunate that it chose to shut them all down when it might have been more logical to shut all but one down and …
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April 28th, 2010 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous
Purchasing Magazine and the Supply Chain Management Review are DEAD, GONE, OUT OF BUSINESS. …
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April 27th, 2010 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous
Your favorite Reed Business Information Publication may be gone, but you have options — much better ones. Unlike tired old-media publications and web sites, Sourcing Innovation is going strong and growing month over month. Sourcing Innovation attracts up to 15,000 unique pairs of eyeballs every month, who make approximately 50,000 unique visits that access about 250,000 pages. That’s equivalent to the entire Encyclopedia Britannica being downloaded over 50 times, every month. While Sourcing Innovation may not offer every service the publications offered, it offers quite a few, and I’d argue that some are better. Here …
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April 19th, 2010 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous
As my regular readers know, I’m not a big fan of PR. (See Blogger Relations I, II, and III.) Most PR people just waste my time, sending me invitations to blog about charity events, the Miss America contest, or the latest self help book by the guru of the day. And those are the better ones. Others offer to schedule meetings the week after I’ve left the city, or schedule meetings without checking if the person they’re scheduling can actually make it, and then don’t tell me the meeting isn’t happening until the call doesn’t happen, or, in …
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March 6th, 2010 | Posted in About, rants
CIPS Australia has a listing of the Top 20 Websites in the World of Procurement. I was thrilled to see that five of the twenty are Blogs, because, as I’ve been saying all along, that’s where most of the content is. Those of you in the US, have a great holiday weekend. And to get you in the mood, here’s a YouTube link to a classic: Snoopy vs. the Chair. …
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November 25th, 2009 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous
Starting next week, Sourcing Innovation will be running a special series on “Sourcing Tomorrow: The e-Leaders Speak” that will feature pieces from the visionaries behind many of the top e-Sourcing and e-Procurement vendors. So far, a dozen leaders of a dozen leading e-Sourcing and e-Procurement vendors have agreed to put their thoughts to paper [...]
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September 4th, 2009 | Posted in About, Guest Author, Miscellaneous
Because I will not publish comparative rankings that cannot be substantiated by one or more external sources, and because I claimed that SI was ranked #1 among the supply management blogs the first time this blog took #1 in the Alexa rankings (primarily because it was the ranking site most favored by the blog that [...]
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August 17th, 2009 | Posted in About, Miscellaneous
