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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Collaborative Sourcing
The value driven by the average sourcing team over the last decade has, in many cases, been significant and transformative. But, competitive forces at play in a rapidly changing business…
Webinar – Collaborative Sourcing: Achieving the Next Wave of Sourcing Savings
Editor's Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) Next Wednesday,…