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,…
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, &…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…