You might think that divorce rates in North America are high, with some statistics as high as 50%, but in the business world, divorce is the name of the game. As a recent article over on Supply Chain Digest points out, no matter how valuable a strategic “supplier alliance” may be at various points […]
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Today I’d like to welcome back Eric Strovink of BIQ who, as I indicated in part I of this series, is authoring the first part of this series on next generation spend analysis and why it is more than just basic spend visibility. Much, much more!
Federation
One of the most serious limitations of OLAP analysis is
the […]
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Today I’d like to welcome back Eric Strovink of BIQ who, as I indicated in part I of this series, is authoring the first part of this series on next generation spend analysis and why it is more than just basic spend visibility. Much, much more!
Many of the limitations of spend analysis derive from its […]
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Today I’d like to welcome back Eric Strovink of BIQ who, as I indicated in part I of this series, is going to be authoring the first part of this series on next generation spend analysis and why it is more than just basic spend visibility. Much, much more!
Many observers would acknowledge that there’s not […]
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Today I’d like to welcome back Eric Strovink of BIQ who, as I indicated in part I of this series, is going to be authoring the first part of this series on next generation spend analysis and why it is more than just basic spend visibility. Much, much more!
Data analysis that should be performed […]
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Although many of the presentations at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh are very academically focused, Mark S. Daskin’s Presidential Address Everyday Lessons from Operations Research had a lot of great lessons for those of out us in the field. The following are Mark Daskin’s Top 13 lessons from operations research:
13. Service Gets Worse […]
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Seventy-two percent of companies worldwide will increase spending on innovation in 2006, and 41 percent will increase spending significantly, according to a recent survey of senior management conducted by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as summarized in Innovation 2006 and Measuring Innovation 2006.
The study was based on responses from more than 1,000 senior executives […]
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Not long after my Crowdsourcing post in the Purchasing Innovation series went up over at e-Sourcing Forum, JR posted a comment letting me know that a company up here (North of the Border) was already doing it commercially, in one of Canada’s IT hotspots (although you might not know it if you visited during stampede […]
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This is the sixth, and final post, in our first series of posts designed to introduce you to problem solving strategies that you can use to attack your sourcing and supply chain problems. Last Sunday we discussed some methodologies that you could use to evaluate a solution. Today we are going to discuss ten general […]
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This is the fifth post in a series of posts designed to introduce you to problem solving strategies that you can use to attack your sourcing and supply chain problems. Last Sunday we discussed three methodologies that you could use to find a solution. Today we are going to discuss methodologies you can […]
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