This is part three of a three-part series.Two days ago, we overviewed the key points that Jason “The Prophet” Bush, the Spend Master of Spend Matters, is making in his annual soapbox road tour, including his five — new and improved — predictions for the procurement world of tomorrow. Yesterday we discussed what it […]
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This is part two of a three-part series.Yesterday we covered the five — new and improved — predictions of Jason “The Prophet” Bush, the Spend Master of Spend Matters, that he has issued from high (on his soapbox) to the supply management community as part of his fall conference tour. These predictions were: […]
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This is part one of a three-part series.At the recent 6th International Symposium on Supply Chain Management sponsored by PMAC and the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University, Jason “The Prophet” Bush of Spend Matters gave his trademark “Emerging Issues in Procurement and Supply Chain Management Soapbox Presentation. For those of you who’ve […]
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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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It’s been one year since my first vendor day post. As it was one of my most popular posts last year at this time, I decided that I would update it for you. And, just like last year, I’ve also included the most relevant posts from Spend Matters to allow you to quickly […]
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Not that long ago, in Local Suppliers, Your Opportunity is Now!, I echoed Tim Cummins’ sentiments when he stated that the current market should offer the perfect storm for local suppliers to make their case that, when everything is factored in, they are often the best choice for your business as they are often able […]
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A recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly discusses how how poor metrics undermine digital marketing, something The Brain and I have been trying to tell you for a while now. (Hint: clicks and page-rank don’t matter!) The article notes that, at least as far as measurements are concerned, the digital world has developed faster […]
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Industry Week recently ran an interesting article by Daniel Flint, Professor of Marketing at The University of Tennessee about moving value through the supply chain. The article, which starts off by noting that it’s not just value that moves through the supply chain, but perception of value, notes that you have to deal with both […]
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Knowledge @ Wharton China recently ran an interesting article that asked when are emerging markets no longer ‘emerging’?. According to the article, dozens of countries, many of which show signs of a strong and growing middle-class population, fall under the label even though they are evolving at their own pace and with their own […]
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Industry Week recently ran another good article, and this one was on the five myths of import compliance that is worth focussing on.The five myths harbored by US importers of record that the article highlighted were as follows: Our risk exposure is limited to the Customs duties. An […]
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