
As we’re heading into summer (at least here in Sweden), conference season is winding down for a couple of months before kicking off again in September. This spring I had…
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As we’re heading into summer (at least here in Sweden), conference season is winding down for a couple of months before kicking off again in September. This spring I had…

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…

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…

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…

Ok, Vista sucks. That little fact spawned a cottage industry and helped juice many a blog’s traffic stats along the way (Please note: if you’re some random Vista-hating surfer, this…

I caught up with a top Chief Procurement Officer and friend the other day. In our chat, we touched upon a whole host of topics and he’s now checking with…

Last Friday, we presented the current Use of Auctions policy in place at the company of one CPO Rising’s reader’s. Today, I’ll offer some in-line commentary. About CompanyName’s Use of…

If procurement warrants a C-level role within the enterprise (and by the title of this site you know that we think it does), the Chief Procurement Officer should begin to…

Shop Talk. Sharp Talk. CPO Shop Talk. From time to time I will attempt to share some of the less-formal conversations that I have with Chief Procurement Officers and CPO-types…

As you recall, the case for eSourcing 2.0 is one of compliance, visibility, knowledge capture, and efficiency, not necessarily one of negotiation strategy (i.e. If you want to run a…
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