(Procurement) Fraud Prevention (3) – Why It’s Important
Our recent focus on procurement fraud which began here with coverage of one Bad Apple and was followed here with a discussion of different CPO strategies , including those of…
Back to School (Training)
In the course of any year, there are a few unique windows that present themselves for planning and reflection. We’ve talked about spring cleaning as a time to get your…
Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies
Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple's bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in…
Fraud Prevention (1) – Avoiding the Bad Apples
Proverb: One bad apple spoils the barrel Scientific Fact: One bad apple spoils the barrel Organizational Behavior Research: A bad apple (at work) can spoil the barrel Bad Apples -…
Déjà vu: Summer Supply Constraints
The dreaded dog days of summer can hit anyone. From the buy side to the supply side, we know they’re coming and yet, many enterprises keep getting hit, from the…
The Dog Days
With apologies to our growing contingent of Chief Procurement Officers and other readers based in the southern hemisphere who are hip-deep into winter – please set a reminder in your…
Data Driven
The world is becoming more and more data driven. As you surf the web today, many of the sites that you visit will utilize ad serving technology that will determine,…
CPO Shop Talk – More Webinar Q&A
This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk is part two of the Q&A portion of a webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus - an archive of…
CPO Shop Talk: Webinar Q&A
This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk comes directly from the Q&A portion of the webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus. I describe the webinar here…
CPO Shop Talk: (1) Meetings to Make Decisions (2) On Winning
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…