Fortune recently published its 21 Dumbest in Business 2008 which had a number of doozies that weren’t aerospace, automotive, or bailout related. The following are great examples of what not-to-do if you’re responsible and spend-conscious: 999.99 for a Screensaver The Apple App Store […]
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On the twelfth day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me a pound of cunning, another vendor hyping, blog posts worth keeping, l’il hampsters dancing, thoughts for a shilling, strategies for winning, tactics for saving, five golden rings, four little words, tri-focal lens, two boxing […]
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On the tenth day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me blog posts worth keeping, l’il hampsters dancing, thoughts for a shilling, strategies for winning, tactics for saving, five golden rings, four little words, tri-focal lens, two boxing gloves and a lesson in […]
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On the fourth day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me four little words, tri-focal lens, two boxing gloves and a lesson in strategy. One of my favorite presentations from the last few years is Coca Cola’s presentation on “Winning Together” from eyefortransport’s Supply Chain Directions Summit back in 2006. […]
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Yesterday’s post discussed the recent article in the Supply Chain Management Review on The Drivers of Procurement Excellence that discussed seven megatrends that are currently exerting their impact on the global procurement function which the authors claimed to be driving procurement excellence by way of the pressures they are exerting on procurement departments across the […]
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The Supply Chain Management Review recently ran an article on The Drivers of Procurement Excellence that discussed seven megatrends that are currently exerting their impact on the global procurement function. More specifically: Managing Extreme Competition and Pressures for Deep Cost Reduction There’s […]
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Two weeks ago, I brought you Dumb Company, a starting list of things that companies who fail the CIRCUIT rating (Corporate Intelligence Rating Calibration Under Inflationary Times) tend to do. Today, I bring you Part III of the series, which will attempt to explain why your favorite vendor likely won’t be here next year […]
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Today’s guest post is from Patrick J. Hogan, a Partner at Paladin Associates, Inc.. A recent article in Paladin Associates’ CheckMate Newsletter entitled “Cost Reduction is NOT a No-Brainer”, generated interest and requests for more information. It made the case that cost reduction programs should be carefully thought out so mistakes […]
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One of the presentations at the 6th Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management was on Performance Management in Buyer-Supplier Collaboration Programs. It focussed on the implementation of a common scorecard between a buyer and supplier and described the impact of the implementation. A common scorecard, which extends the traditional balanced […]
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the doctor will be in the Boston Area for most of next week, and currently has a fair amount of free time (particularly later in the week when many of you Americans take your 4-day weekend). If anyone would like to meet, and brief, the doctor, please drop a note to the doctor <at> […]
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