This is sort of a continuation of last Monday’s blogologue where I wondered if the sourcing nation has a Prozac problem. While thinking about why the new solutions are being ignored when they should be the target of evaluations (and positive feedback, so that even if they don’t work for you today, they will […]
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IBM is planning to buy Cognos for 5 Billion. That’s right - 5 Billion! Now I know that Cognos stock is trading at around $57 as I compose this post, that Cognos has a Market Cap that is somewhere around 4.76 Billion, and that Cognos’ annual revenue exceeds 1 Billion a year (1.02 […]
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) to us old-schoolers), I thought everybody knew the meaning of the word share. However, a recent visit to the good old ISM - or should that be the curmudgeonly old ISM, proved me wrong.I found out that […]
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I recently came across an article over on Global Services Beta that said Talent War 2012: U.S.A. Set to Win. Needless to say I was stunned - especially since the first paragraph ended on the U.S. labor market is set to become less open and flexible over the next five years amid fears of […]
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Last week, on Spend Matters, Wrong! Don’t listen. posted a couple of great comments that I am thrilled to reprint herein. The first comment went like this:”What analysts know is what they’ve been told. And what they’ve been told on the product side is coming almost entirely from vendors who are paying them for […]
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I’m a man of the land, I’m into discipline Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine Then tonight we’re gonna party like its 1699 from “Amish Paradise” by Weird Al YankovicAfter talking to companies like Vinimaya […]
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We all know about Barney - the “love”-filled purple dinosaur that could convince even the most gentle of pacifists to pick up a sawed-off and let loose a few rounds of buckshot. What we may not know is just how far the “barney deal” and the “barney presentation” has infiltrated our profession. How many conferences […]
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I’m sure by now you’ve all heard the news - Hollywood Writers On Strike. And you know what comes next … sympathy strikes from other writer’s unions! Of course, this might not be a bad thing - how many more jokes can you take about Paris’ Pursing of TinkerBell, Britney Baring All, and […]
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive is at it again - collecting nominations for their 2008 Pros To Know. According to the article, you can go to the nomination form and either nominate yourself or another candidate for consideration as a 2008 Pro to Know. There are a few individuals the doctor would like to nominate, […]
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Every now and again I search for Sourcing Innovation on Google, expecting to find this blog and companion website, a few Spend Matters posts, Nine Sigma, a service for innovation seekers looking to hook up with innovative solution providers using open innovation, and maybe the Wikipedia definition for innovation. But I recently ran the search, […]
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