Share This on Linked In Smart companies know that the last thing you should do in a down economy, which is what builds great companies, is to stop marketing because out of sight, out of mind is never more true than it is in troubled times. Plus, with so many of your [...]
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Share This on Linked In Editor’s Note: This is Kevin Brooks’ first post as a regular contributor to Sourcing Innovation. His previous guest posts are still archived.) Kevin is an experienced marketer in the sourcing and procurement space who was an early visionary where blogging, green supply chain, and web 2.0 is [...]
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Last August, I introduced you to B2B 3.0, which promises simplicity for all, in the inaugural Sourcing Innovation Illumination that also explained how B2B 3.0 was the first technology to enable true B2B e-Commerce which consists of simple, fast, low-cost transactions at true market prices. Then, in the follow up Illumination, I explained how B2B [...]
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I recently stumbled upon an article published by Supply & Demand Chain Executive last summer on why customer-facing integration demands a better approach that claimed to provide a helpful guide to IaaS (Integration-as-a-Service) … and the last part in particular caught my attention. I’m a big fan of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) because of it’s instant [...]
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All the experts finally agree — it’s a recession and we need to get back to basics if our businesses are going to survive. The question is, after years of irrational exuberance, do you remember what the basics are? I’ll give you a hint … good spend and supply management professionals practice them [...]
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Today’s post has been broken down into vacuity, vindication, and veil. Vacuity Wakko I never imagined a Stampede could be so much fun! Editor’s note: the maniacs took a little detour [...]
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e-Procurement, the counterpart to e-Sourcing that starts where e-Sourcing ends and ends where e-Sourcing begins (as outlined in It’s Sourcing AND Procurement), is the “e” implementation of the procurement cycle that is concerned with the requisitioning, receiving, and reconciliation of received goods, as opposed to the analysis, auction, and strategic award that takes place in [...]
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Perfect Financial Storm Shutters SuppliersCommunistic Leader Closes BordersHurricane Hades Shutters East Coast PortToothpaste Terrorizes Teeth … Millions TaintedMelamine Mauls Mutts … Thousands DeadSpinach Salmonella Kills HundredsHow many times have we seen these headlines in recent years? Too Many. How many times in the past year has a crises like this affected your average [...]
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Like it’s predecessors in the series, this latest white paper on how Content Enablement Technologies Enable e-Procurement 3.0 is about B2B 3.0 (Business-to-Business 3.0), the next generation of technology for the enterprise that generates value throughout the supply chain, and how it enables e-Procurement 3.0, which is the only implementation of e-Procurement technology that is [...]
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Loren Feldman of 1938 Media is right! Web 2.0 is Dead! Good thing there’s B2B 3.0 to pick up the slack!Scanning through the past few months of ZDNet’s Tech archives, I came across this commentary by Sid Probstein, CTO of Attivio, one of the many companies popping up in the “semantic web” and [...]
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