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Strategic Sourcing

June 10, 2011

Webinar: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead

It’s coming together The data from respondents (218) has been captured and analyzed [Sidebar: huge thanks to all – the final report should hit your inbox in early July. Also,... Read more
April 21, 2011

Collaborative Sourcing and Other Thoughts

I was originally planning to write an article discussing the Collaborative Sourcing session that I participated in last week at Ariba LIVE (along with sourcing leaders from BB&T, Coach, &... Read more
April 4, 2011

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Happy Anniversary CPO Rising (2) eSourcing 2.0 Enacted

CPO Rising Celebrates One Year Anniversary! Although we technically started publishing articles on CPO Rising on Jan 1, 2010, we waited until April 1, 2010 to announce its existence to... Read more
March 30, 2011

CPO Shop Talk: (1) P&G Purchases on the Rise (2) Sourcing Optimization

A few items to highlight from CombineNet’s “Sourcing Visionaries” event held yesterday in Chicago. (1) P&G Purchases Uldis Sipols, VP, Global Product Supply Purchases at Procter & Gamble delivered the... Read more
March 14, 2011

Webinar: Spend Data Classification

Just a short lead in for an upcoming webinar that I will be presenting next week. The upcoming webinar is sponsored by Zycus and you can register for it here. ... Read more
January 31, 2011

Dinner, Drinks, and……. A Roundtable on Sourcing Success

Dinner, Drinks, and a Movie Roundtable on Sourcing Success – what could be better? One of the first reports that we published at Ardent Partners, Sourcing in the 2010’s: The... Read more
January 7, 2011

eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case – Reprise

Editor’s Note: This article kicked off one of last year’s most popular topics: eSourcing 2.0. For more than a decade, strategic sourcing consultants, professionals, and solution providers have been working... Read more
January 6, 2011

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

Editor’s Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing... Read more
January 5, 2011

eSourcing Myths (and How to Deconstruct Them) – Reprise

Editor’s Note: One of my favorite topics this past year has been eSourcing 2.0. This code/policy/doctrine was introduced in our articles, research, and presentations in 2010, but was developed over... Read more
December 13, 2010

ROA – Improve Your Return on Technology Assets (Strat. Sourcing)

Two years ago this month, I caught up with the Chief Procurement Officer of a US Federal agency about her plans for the upcoming year and our discussion turned to... Read more