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New Wave Company Update: Cloud wars veteran cloudBuy ready to overtake Apple, Google and Microsoft by Jon Hansen
Can we pick em or can we pick em! Even though New Wave Company 2014 cloudBuy was not selected as our Year in the Life winner, they nonetheless seem to be making some major waves in the market. One example of the company’s extending ripple is an article that appeared in today’s Telegraph. In the […]
Walmart sues Visa for price fixing; A “Vlasic” example of what is good for the goose is not good for the gander by Jon Hansen
March 29, 2014
One of the most enduring posts here on the Procurement Insights blog in terms of overall reads is a piece I wrote on July 9th, 2007 titled “Public Sector Procurement and the Walmart Effect“. One would think that after 7 years the insights it offered might no longer apply because after all, things change. However when […]
The Groundswell Effect and the Emergence of the Public-Private Partnership Relational Model by Jon Hansen
March 17, 2014
In his book Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes, Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are the Microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. If you think about it for a moment, you will see that Penn is right on the money. After all, how many of us […]
New Intel case study provides interesting insight in terms of supplier accessibility
February 27, 2014
The following Intel Case Study is quite interesting in terms of demonstrating how the emerging B2B world is transitioning to a more nimble technological platform that provides equal access across a company’s supply base regardless of vendor size. Or to put it another way, we have come a long way since the limiting days of […]
Xchanging’s acquisition of MM4 already bearing fruit as the company played an important role in landing STS contract by Jon Hansen
November 26, 2013
“We used MM4’s technology in a logistics test case for STS. The case demonstrated that the use of the tool could assist in providing significant savings. MM4’s technology will play (is already playing) a role in delivering savings for STS, as part of a seamless, tailored bundle of sourcing services we are building to meet the goals of […]
Breaking News! Watch for our new “A Year in the Life of an eProcurement Start-up” Series Coming Soon
October 24, 2013
Procurement Insights will be launching a special series of blog posts and corresponding radio/TV interviews tracking the progression of a start-up eProcurement software company over a 12 month period in November. The series, which focuses on the evolution of the start-up’s solution from the development stage through to going live in a production environment, will provide an […]
According to Media Miser GTEC Report, Procurement Insight’s is one of the top influencers in terms of reach . . .
October 10, 2013
Editor’s note: According to Media Miser, who is a leading provider of media monitoring and analysis software and professional services, Procurement Insights holds the number 3 position as one of the top 10 influencers by reach at this year’s GTEC event. GTEC which stands for the Government Technology Exhibition and Conference, “is a unique platform […]
Welcome to The New Procurement Insights EU Edition
May 23, 2013
This past year has been somewhat of a watershed year for the Procurement Insights blog as well as its sister radio show The PI Window on the World. For example, we surpassed the 1,000 post mark with the blog that was launched with little fanfare in May 2007. That is a lot of “virtual ink” […]
Next week’s line-up of shows features interviews with execs from IBM and Xchanging by Jon Hansen
May 10, 2013
While the world of procurement is never boring, some week’s have an added pop to them in that you get an opportunity to cover two of the hottest stories that are trending at a particular moment in time. On Tuesday, May 14th at 12:00 Noon EST, I will be airing my interview with Alisa Maclin, […]
Virginia’s eProcurement Bureau Director to provide the client point of view with a regular column in the Procurement Insights Blog
August 28, 2012
The first time I had the pleasure of talking with Bob Sievert back in August 2007 was when he contacted me regarding a then recent post titled The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand? After introducing himself and sharing with me a brief overview of Virginia’s eVA initiative, Bob asked if I would be interested […]
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