Chief Procurement Officers Archives - Page 153 of 155 - CPO RISING - THE SITE FOR CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICERS & LEADERS IN SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Meetings to Make Decisions (2) On Winning

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Meetings to Make Decisions I recently caught up with a Chief Procurement Officer who finds himself in the early part of a procurement transformation journey. He's not a career procurement…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Last week we introduced you to the procurement operations at Europe's second largest utility company, Enel and its procurement executive in charge of the technology infrastructure and the company processes…

Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini June 25, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today, Part Two of our CPO Case Study with Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, for Enel Energy in Rome will look at the supply management solutions and…

Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini June 23, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Two speaking engagements in Northern Italy in the last two months and each time I have had the pleasure of preceding Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, Business…

…Is a Nickel, Dime, or Quarter Earned

By Andrew Bartolini June 11, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

After a sly rambling preamble about the acidic rain of costly pennies from heaven, our discussion last time, A Penny Saved, turned to the extraordinary impact that ordinary procurement results…

CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO

By Andrew Bartolini June 4, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

The eSourcing 2.0 campaign is underway and over the next few months we’ll be taking the campaign to the streets. I’ve already been invited by several procurement leaders to speak…

Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 2)

By Andrew Bartolini June 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, StrategyNo Comments

Last week, we provided a discussion on embedding procurement within the business. Yesterday, in Part One of this CPO Case Study, we introduced a CPO who’s gone and done it…

Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 1)

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy2 Comments

Two months after our formal launch at CPO Rising and things are really starting to heat up. (1) Thank you for your time and interest in support of the site;…

Embedded

By Andrew Bartolini May 26, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy2 Comments

At several of the events that I have spoken at in April and May, my presentation theme has paralleled one of the 10 or 2010 articles written to kick off…

Send a Lieutenant

By Andrew Bartolini May 19, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Ok, Vista sucks. That little fact spawned a cottage industry and helped juice many a blog's traffic stats along the way (Please note: if you’re some random Vista-hating surfer, this…