A recent article on managing IT in a downturn in the McKinsey Quarterly had a couple of great points.1. In some instances, IT investments deliver more value to a company’s top and bottom lines — by creating new efficiencies and increasing revenues — than any savings gained from traditional IT cost cutting.2. The impact on […]
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I recently encountered yet another RFID article that took a look at how RFID will impact supply chain optimization and control and decided that I just can’t ignore the subject any longer. As you have probably guessed from that first sentence, I’m not a big RFID fan. It’s yet another technology that greatly […]
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Yesterday we noted that if you were looking for a way to quickly and easily segregate the vast array of companies offering procurement solutions in the marketplace, you’d quickly find that they could quickly be divided into those that almost exclusively serve the public sector and those that almost exclusively serve the private sector. […]
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The Seven Grand Challenges for Supply and Spend Management cross-blog series has come to an end. We had some great posts, including those from front-runners Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters and the Strategic Sourceror of The Strategic Sourceror, but participation was low this time around, compared to back in January when I […]
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A recent Industry Week article on Implementing Supply Chain Management Solutions made a good point — the biggest factor in the collapse of supply chain management (SCM) implementations is … change — the type of change inflicted on an organization with little regard for how greatly it will impact the people and processes that serve […]
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A recent article in Information Week on The Road to Making BI Available to Everyone noted that, on average, only 25% of workers use BI. Considering that we’re in the information age, this is rather pathetic. Why is this?According to the article, there are five major reasons for this: The tools themselves […]
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Last month, Jason Busch gave the sourcing world an introduction to EcoVadis in his two part series (Part I and Part II) over on Spend Matters. In his posts, he noted that EcoVadis was a European (and, in particular, a French) provider of a sustainability solution for evaluating and monitoring suppliers whose primary focus is […]
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Today I’d like to thank Vinnie Mirchandani of Deal Architect and New Florence. New Renaissance. for allowing me to re-post his thoughts on Healthcare - Three Way Matching as part of Healthcare Week.At the HiMSS conference a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of having an industry veteran - Dave Watson - as […]
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Manufacturing & Logistics IT recently ran an article on The 10 Fallacies of Logistics Productivity Management that noted that productivity management often represents the lowest hanging fruit for companies interested in reducing supply chain costs. It also noted that the failure to implement advanced productivity management systems may be related to a number of […]
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A recent article in Strategy+Business which started off by noting that today’s Chief Information Officer must enable the organization to meet its strategic goals and to envision goals that were never before possible caught my eye. The article, which quickly quoted Michael Giledman who said that you (need to) spend a lot of time […]
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