Recently, I predicted that India would be the eventual winner of the talent war. This is because they have the people, the culture, continually increasing capital inflow, education, the will, and an increasing amount of openness - in contrast to the US, which is more intent on keeping just about everyone out than letting […]
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While browsing the Supply Chain Management Review site recently, I stumbled upon the article What Supply Management Can Learn From MySpace, and I was scared. Although not as bad as Facebook, I still think of it as a time-sucking black hole filled with meaningless banter between teens, twenty-somethings, and the unemployed - with poorly […]
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I recently read an article over at Knowledge @ Wharton on Software’s Future where they said that there is a drive toward hybrid desktop/webtop software, that there are limits to both approaches, and that the future for software may be a blend of the best features of both, that really got my attention.The focus of […]
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I know that some of you, especially those of you that only read the intro and / or first chapter to books like Your Marketing Sucks, don’t really believe in the value of the brand - instead believing that what really matters is sales, and marketing efforts that directly impact sales. And if you […]
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This is sort of a continuation of last Monday’s blogologue where I wondered if the sourcing nation has a Prozac problem. While thinking about why the new solutions are being ignored when they should be the target of evaluations (and positive feedback, so that even if they don’t work for you today, they will […]
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IBM is planning to buy Cognos for 5 Billion. That’s right - 5 Billion! Now I know that Cognos stock is trading at around $57 as I compose this post, that Cognos has a Market Cap that is somewhere around 4.76 Billion, and that Cognos’ annual revenue exceeds 1 Billion a year (1.02 […]
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) to us old-schoolers), I thought everybody knew the meaning of the word share. However, a recent visit to the good old ISM - or should that be the curmudgeonly old ISM, proved me wrong.I found out that […]
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I recently came across an article over on Global Services Beta that said Talent War 2012: U.S.A. Set to Win. Needless to say I was stunned - especially since the first paragraph ended on the U.S. labor market is set to become less open and flexible over the next five years amid fears of […]
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As an astute sourcing professional, I’m sure you picked up on Jason’s Busch post last Thursday on Online Spend Management Traffic where he noted that blog traffic is rising while most of the online publications are flattening out, and in some cases, maybe even falling. This makes sense to me since real bloggers publish […]
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Last week, on Spend Matters, Wrong! Don’t listen. posted a couple of great comments that I am thrilled to reprint herein. The first comment went like this:”What analysts know is what they’ve been told. And what they’ve been told on the product side is coming almost entirely from vendors who are paying them for […]
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