I’ve decided to throw in the towel as a blogger and take a real job. From here forward, I’ll be working half my time as an analyst and half as a journalist. I decided to take this route to minimize the amount of time I have to work while maximizing m…
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As you can probably tell, this anti-dumping case has gotten me fired up. Whenever I see companies angling for artificial protection from competitors at the expense of everyone else in the market, it makes my blood boil. What’s to stop any US company …
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As I’ve said before, for those procurement organizations which are increasingly focused on global sourcing (and sourcing to serve production and demand in local markets), it’s more than worth embracing your customs and trade team (which often have fa…
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Over on Software Safari, my colleague and fellow Enterprise Irregular Brian Sommer does not mince words when it comes to his concern over a potential shortage of TLAs. Seriously, what are industry analysts, marketing and IT people to do when there ar…
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Hello Spend Matters Readers,My name is Jason “fact-based” Busch. I’m the Spend Management Group Director, Research Services VP, and office punching bag at Spend Matters Publishing, Inc. in Boston, MA (in fact, the Spend Fool is giving me ten lashes r…
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If you believe available labor capacity drives pricing, then your next King Fisher in New Delhi should be cheaper in the new year. According to Reuters, “Women will be allowed to work as bartenders in New Delhi, India’s Supreme Court ruled, upholding…
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While most of us are worried about supply risk in the B2B supply chain (e.g., a supplier in Detroit going out of business or a supplier in India or China substituting cheaper materials), it also turns out that supply risk — supply shortages, to be e…
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This story in the New York Times about a recent controversy surrounding a Eurostar advertisement in Belgium nearly took the piss out of me. Apparently, “An advertisement in Belgium promoting the newly accelerated Euro-star trains recently caused a ra…
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Although outsourcing is currently a global trend, there are some jobs that were not meant for getting off the payrolls — at least in the North of Europe. And one of these jobs involves helping Santa and his reindeer make their yearly epic trek. Acco…
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If we returned to our economics textbooks from college, we would quickly refresh our memories about how pricing impacts demand. But like all economists, bloggers like data that supports this type of broad-based claim (especially when it comes to econ…
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