Leverage – Procurement’s Big Impact on Profits
We’ve spent the past few articles (here and here) looking at the impact that a procurement department’s net contribution can have on profitability and placed that impact in the relative…
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;…
Are You Experienced?
Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have…. Actually I haven’t. Wait, now I’m not sure, what are we talking about again? Like most other days at CPO Rising, today…
Meet me in…. Chicago… and San Francisco…
May is shaping up to be a busy month. To start, it is ‘events season’ for many of the solution providers in the supply management space and I will be…
A Walk in the Clouds
As I write this, I wish I was in the clouds, literally. But I am not, still grounded in Italy by the volcanic ash clouds of Eyjafjallajökull (what a nice…
Spend Analysis, Italian Style
We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming…. Two of my favorite things: (1) waking up in Italy and (2) talking about spend analysis. Despite my 90-year old Nonna’s…
On the Bubble
March Madness is upon us. The NCAA Division I Men’s College Basketball Tournament kicks off this week with a field of the top 64 65 teams taking to the courts…
Five Forces in Business Travel
The Masters Program in partnership with The National Business Travel Association, was held last month in Washington D.C., and by my estimation delivered on its promise to deliver an event…
SciQuest NextLevel 2010
Dateline: A snow-bound Raleigh, North Carolina for NextLevel, SciQuest’s Annual Conference held Feb. 1-3. SciQuest is a SaaS solution provider best known for its P2P prowess and a supplier network…
10 for 2010: Strategies to Improve Accounts Payable
I have a good feeling about Accounts Payable (AP) in this decade. In recent years, there has been increasing momentum within the marketplace for AP transformation. Not the kind of…