(Procurement) Fraud Prevention (3) – Why It’s Important
Our recent focus on procurement fraud which began here with coverage of one Bad Apple and was followed here with a discussion of different CPO strategies , including those of…
Back to School (Training)
In the course of any year, there are a few unique windows that present themselves for planning and reflection. We’ve talked about spring cleaning as a time to get your…
Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies
Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple's bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in…
Fraud Prevention (1) – Avoiding the Bad Apples
Proverb: One bad apple spoils the barrel Scientific Fact: One bad apple spoils the barrel Organizational Behavior Research: A bad apple (at work) can spoil the barrel Bad Apples -…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…