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Vance Checketts to head Aberdeen Procurement & Supply Management Practice

I was surprised and pleased to learn Vance will be announced shortly as Aberdeen’s new leader for its Procurment and Supply Management. He strengthens an already strong team there. Spendmatters broke the news here.
Vance and I worked together for years at Oracle. During the .com boom days Vance was ‘CEO’ of Oracle’s Exchange.Oracle.Com business. He […]

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Iasta E-Sourcing Forum Post

David Bush, my good friend who helped found the e-Sourcing outfit Iasta, invited me to write a guest post on e-Sourcing Forum. The topic was procurement & innovation, and I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to talk about until I started typing. Right away, my mind struck upon how open source is emerging […]

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Do as Wal-Mart does

If you thought blogging was goofy, think again. SCDigest alerted me to a new corporate blog by Global #1 (or was that Public Enemy #1?). The Wal-Mart blog, named Check-out, “are buyers or merchandisers in a number of product categories (e.g., “gadgets” or “lawn and garden”) who went through detailed training in how […]

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