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February 18, 2011

Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion

Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:... Read more
February 15, 2011

The Social Network and Business Travel

After a introducing Six Trends in Business Travel that will impact your travel programs and discussing Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy, we’ll close this mini T&E series that... Read more
February 11, 2011

Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy

The category of business travel is one of the largest controllable categories of spend within the average enterprise. It remains one of the most complex to manage and it is... Read more
February 9, 2011

Six Trends in Business Travel

Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies... Read more
September 15, 2010

Lillevik in the Field: Webster Bank’s First CPO

I recently caught up with CPO on the rise and “friend of the site,” Anders Lillevik to check on how his procurement transformation project, which began when he joined Webster... Read more
June 7, 2010

Hawk Those Legal Eagles

This past weekend, I caught up with a bunch of friends on a visit to Mt. St. James. One friend is now a partner in the corporate section of the... 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
April 5, 2010

A Cinderella Story

Everyone loves an underdog. Tonight at 9:21 pm ET at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis, Butler University tips off against Duke University in the NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship... Read more
March 1, 2010

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... Read more
February 10, 2010

Business Travel Fusion

According to Wikipedia, nuclear fusion “is the process by which multiple like-charged atomic nuclei join together to form a heavier nucleus.” At its aptly named user conference (Concur Fusion) held... Read more