…Is a Nickel, Dime, or Quarter Earned
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…
A Penny Saved…
Riddle 1: When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar. Riddle 2: When is a penny not a penny? Since 2006. 2006 is the year when the cost…
Hawk Those Legal Eagles
This past weekend, I caught up with a bunch of friends on a visit to Mt. St. James. One friend is now a partner in the corporate section of the…
CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO
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)
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)
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;…
eSourcing 2.0: Campaign Kickoff
Good morning. We are here today to announce our campaign for eSourcing 2.0 as the policy of choice for procurement departments great and small around the globe. We all made…
Embedded
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…
Opportunity-to-Order: The Value of Contract Management
Buy-Sell, Sell-Buy. Tomorrow, and for perhaps the last time ever (not definitive), I will be presenting research that I performed for my last employer, Aberdeen Group. In a strange twist…
The eSourcing 2.0 Campaign Trail
Like any good successful politician (good politician = oxymoron), I am trying to stay on message with the eSourcing 2.0 campaign (Source, Baby, Source!). It’s a grass-roots movement and we…