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“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Sourcing in the 2010s” Report
For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few “promotions”- including our sponsors and our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so make... Read more
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Bridging the Social Media Gap (Use Case Example)
Today is the third article focused on our view of the potential impact that social networking will have in reshaping Supply Management (or B2B or P2P relationships). The first –... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)
Today, our final answer to the question: Do you have any advice for more tenured strategic sourcing teams? What should these teams be doing to prepare for the next 5-10... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)
Last week, I participated in a webinar – Strategic Imperatives of Procurement: People, Process & Technology – (you can view it by clicking here – registration required) that was sponsored... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (1)
Last week, I participated in a webinar (which was really more of a Q&A session than a traditional webinar) that was sponsored by Zycus. This event allowed me to tackle... Read more
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Attention Sourcing Professionals – A Few Recommendations
Tuesday afternoon I participated in a webinar/Q&A session that allowed me to tackle a series of hot topic questions [I’ll post the archive when it becomes available]. One question that... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert
(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding... Read more
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Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis
Today’s Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient... Read more
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Technology Adoption – An Expert’s View: Iasta (1)
As part of our ongoing Technology Adoption series, we thought it would be helpful to capture and share the perspectives from a few industry leaders who face the challenge of... Read more
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Case Study from the Collaborative Sourcing Report
In our last article, we discussed Ardent Partners’ recent report focused on Collaborative Sourcing which we define as the process “which blends traditional sourcing approaches with more robust category strategies,... Read more