CPO Shop Talk: (1) Supply Risk in the Ts & Cs (2) Ph.D in Supply Management?
Our CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series takes a detour to Houston, where earlier this week, I delivered, for the first time, a detailed discussion of my recet research…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Holger Baeuerle: In the Mood for Procurement (Part 2)
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 continues with Part 2 of our profile of Holger Baeuerle, Senior Vice President - Head of Global Procurement at Moody’s Corporation’s (Ticker – NYSE:…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Holger Baeuerle: In the Mood for Procurement (Part 1)
In the Spring of 2007, friend of the site, Holger Baeuerle became the first Chief Procurement Officer in the company that John Moody founded in 1914, Moody’s Corporation’s (Ticker –…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Price Marr: Generating Value at Ameren (Part 2)
Our “CPOs on the Rise in 2011” series continues today with part two of our profile of Price Marr, a procurement executive with Ameren Corporation (Ticker - NYSE: AEE), one…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – Price Marr: Generating Value at Ameren (Part 1)
Our “CPOs on the Rise in 2011” series starts with Price Marr, a procurement executive (and ‘friend of the site’) who’s generating a ton of procurement value out in the…
Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion
Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:…
The Social Network and Business Travel
After a introducing Six Trends in Business Travel that will impact your travel programs and discussing Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy, we’ll close this mini T&E series that…
Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy
The category of business travel is one of the largest controllable categories of spend within the average enterprise. It remains one of the most complex to manage and it is…
Six Trends in Business Travel
Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies…
MMQ – What Kind of CPO (Coach) Are You?
On the last “Monday morning” of the NFL season, we appropriately end our first season of the Monday Morning Query series where on many Mondays during the NFL season, we…