In my last post, I went mental on three of the most dangerous myths out there with respect to e-Auctions. In this post, I’ll attack some of the more brain-dead myths that are out there with respect to optimization. For more great information on decision optimization, I recommend checking out the e-Sourcing Wiki […]
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I don’t care what it’s made of - there isn’t a container in existence that won’t explode if filled to a point where the internal pressure exceeds the external pressure by a sufficient amount. Remember the second law of thermodynamics - the entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to […]
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I’m not sure what the reason for this is, maybe it’s the “Free RFP Templates” for e-Sourcing (RFPs & e-Auctions), Supplier Management, Contract Management, and Spend Analysis brought to you by Procuri & Co., maybe it’s an over-inflated sense of technical knowledge, or maybe it’s just plain stupidity - but more and more I’m hearing […]
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Inspired by InformationWeek’s 9 Questions To Ask A Tech Startup, here are the equivalent nine questions that you should be asking your prospective sourcing and procurement technology vendors.What’s Your Background? This question applies to founders, key executives, and the company itself. Look for the right mix of people with deep technical expertise, deep domain […]
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This is a continuation of the doctor wonders why the elephants in the room are often so hard to see where I expose the elephants hiding behind the couch, the lamp, and the projection screen. In my last post, I exposed you to the optimization elephants, the EIPP elephants, and the spend analysis elephants that […]
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With respect to e-Auctions, there’s a host of myths out there that need to be busted. Where-forth they sprang from, I don’t know, but to the graveyard, they must go! I’ll start with some of the more dangerous ones, and maybe the experts from e-Sourcing Forum and Where Next will chime in with […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I told you the doctor is not an analyst!. This inspired a counter-post from the one and only Jason Busch, which in turn inspired a plethora of comments, including some that argued against what the comment authors hallucinated I said (which, of course, makes for good entertainment value, so […]
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The elephants in the room and the barney deals aren’t the only problems plaguing our industry. Dangerous myths are constantly infecting the minds of those who will listen to the fear-mongers and the melancholics. Some of these myths are fairly well known, like the myth that once prices are locked in a contract […]
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I recently stumbled upon an article over on the European Leaders Network that was titled Leadership Crucial in Retention of Talent. Needless to say, I was a little shocked. How much more obvious can you get? Come on! I don’t know about you, but I’ve never heard anyone say “My boss […]
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A colleague of mine recently remarked that the whole dashboard concept is stupid beyond belief and just a lot of malarkey and I have to agree. “Dashboards” as they exist today are completely useless, and, in general, the concept is mostly useless. As my enlightened colleague would say, a single metric on a […]
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