Conferences
I’ve got to hand it to Tim Minahan for coming up with creative marketing ideas and spinning them in new ways. For example, given the country’s current fascination with every single political caucus or town hall meeting concerning the Presidential pri…
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Pretty soon, I’ll be traversing the North American continent for the spring 2008 conference season. You really don’t want to know what my personal carbon footprint will be (although at least I’m not being a hypocrite like Al Gore by flying private). …
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What Will 2008 Bring in the Metals Markets?
Earlier today, Lisa Reisman and Stuart Burns penned a thoughtful and lengthy post over on Metal Miner offering up their predictions for the metals markets in 2008. Among the metals categories they take the…
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Over the years, I’ve attended and taken part in what is now probably over a hundred vendor conferences, events and road shows. But one that will go down as the most memorable was MFG.com’s Fusion road show this fall which swung through Los Angeles, D…
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One of the presentations at InteSource’s event that I got the most out of was given by an executive at Harris Teeter. For those who don’t know Harris Teeter, they’re an upscale grocery concept that reminds me quite a bit of Whole Foods, but with much…
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Last week, I attended Intesource’s conference in Scottsdale. At the event, I had the opportunity to hone some of my conference speaking decks by giving three presentations throughout the first day of the event, including one to a break-out group that…
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Last week, I gave the kick-off presentation for Ariba’s Toronto Spend Management Days event. Incidentally, if you’ve never been to Toronto, you’re missing out. It’s a wonderful large city which reminds me quite a bit of Chicago, but with a style and …
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Enter Ariba, Stage Left
In the next week, I will continue to post the remaining dispatches from the Procuri and Emptoris events that I have taken notes on, but I’ve yet to write up (but I think will be worth your time to read). Today, I thought I’…
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Supplier Performance: Checking the Box is not Enough!
At most vendor events, it’s highly unlikely to find the most innovative organizations presenting what they?re up to. Usually, the crème de la crème in a particular area like to keep to themselv…
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In the past few years, it’s been painful to watch as all of the major vendors stagnated from an innovation perspective in sourcing. With the exception of CombineNet (which has never really sold stand alone software), you could count the number of tru…
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