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July 26, 2010

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... Read more
July 6, 2010

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... Read more
June 28, 2010

BIG Trends

In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the... Read more
June 2, 2010

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... Read more
June 1, 2010

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;... Read more
May 26, 2010

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... Read more
May 19, 2010

Send a Lieutenant

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... Read more
May 18, 2010

Bring a Lieutenant

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... Read more
May 5, 2010

Cross Pollination

I had an interesting call on Monday with two recent grads from a top-tier Supply Chain program that are now both part of a global supply chain rotation program at... Read more
April 19, 2010

Planes, Trains, and (Auto)-Mobility

After the breakup of The Sugarcubes, I was pretty sure that nothing that ever happened in Iceland would have a big impact on my life. I was wrong. Curses, Eyjafjallajökull!!!... Read more