Where is My Market Going?

Although it is impossible to tell precisely how many visitors a site is getting without having access to complete logs, and similarly difficult to tell how one site stacks up against another (especially when some site masters don’t know how to differentiate image hits from page hits, etc.), there are third party traffic tracking tools [...]

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Don’t Forget About the Resource Site!

That’s right! the doctor also maintains a resource site (indexed as the first link on the right-hand sidebar) which, as far as he can tell, has more blogs, publications, societies, companies, and events indexed than any other site in the space! For example, there are currently over 100 events indexed for 2008 (yes, [...]

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Now That Your Marketing Budget Has Been Approved

It would be a very good time to send the doctor an e-mail to reserve your slot as a sponsor of Sourcing Innovation. As one of the few resources for sourcing, procurement, purchasing, supply and spend management professionals interested in improving themselves, their processes, and the overall performance of their organizations, and possibly the [...]

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What Does the doctor Do? For Executives

the doctor does Innovation for the Real World, whatever that happens to be. I know simply by the fact that you’re reading this blog - since readers of this blog are intelligent, driven, and keen on innovation - that you understood exactly what the doctor does after reading the initial post, What Does the [...]

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Start the Year with Sourcing Innovation

This post also deals with a sustainability issue important to me - the sustainability of this blog! The new year is approaching fast and that means it’s time to figure out where best to spend that new marketing budget. Why not commit to a Sourcing Innovation Sponsorship and have [...]

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Your SI!

To the tune of “UHF” by Weird Al Yankovic. Put down your old-school textbook Throw out your online Guide Put away your jacket There’s no need to go outside Don’t you know that we control the horizontal We control the verticle, too We gonna make a sourcing leader out of you That’s what [...]

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What Does the doctor Do?

Pre-script: This post deals with the sustainability issue most important to me - me! As time goes on, not only do I continue to spend a significant amount of time having what seems to be the same one-sided conversation explaining what I do, what I don’t do, and why I do, and do [...]

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Recent Site Maintenance

As you may have noticed, there have been some minor changes to the blog as a result of the site maintenance performed by the hosting provider last night, including the default template(s). I have been informed by a few readers that their RSS feeds have not been working today. Mine have, but if [...]

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Site Maintenance, Again

My hosting provider will be performing maintenance and site updates again today, 2007-07-25, at 10:00 pm UTC-7 (Pacific Daylight Time). This means the blog will be down temporarily. (Estimated: 6 hours) …

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Who Wants to Brief The Doctor?

Just a reminder that if you’re interested in the chance to Brief the Doctor to drop me a line at thedoctor<at>sourcinginnovation<dot>com. (If we’ve already spoken, or you’ve already contacted me, then you’re on the list and I’ll contact you when I know I’m going to be in your city.) [...]

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