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News Flash: According to just released IACCM Poll result, Canada is the country that is the “easiest to do business with!”

August 3, 2010

I just received an e-mail from IACCM Founder and CEO Tim Cummins indicating that the results from the association’s poll of IACCM international negotiators indicated that Canada has emerged as the country “easiest to do business with.” Comparing the performance of 56 major trading nations using 9 criteria focusing on areas including ethics, language, contract […]

10th Annual IBX Purchasing Executive Summit Keynote Focuses on Social Media’s Influence on the Purchasing World

July 29, 2010

When I was asked to both speak at as well as moderate the 10th Annual IBX Purchasing Executive Summit in Stockholm in early October, it represented what is quickly becoming a busy fall speaking schedule that will also take me to places such as the United Kingdom and British Columbia. The focus of my Keynote […]

Europe seeks access to lucrative Canadian contracts (but what does it really mean to Canadian business?)

July 27, 2010

Meetings in Brussels between the EU and Canada this month ran longer than expected as negotiators considered allowing European bids for public works contracts in Canada worth an estimated $100 billion a year . . . European industry wants access to Canada’s regional and local public works contracts, from provincial energy infrastructure to municipal water […]

The Cure for Enterprise Software Fatigue

July 14, 2010

Whenever I am contacted by a vendor for a “pre” press release briefing, I always go into the discussion with one part interest, one part cynicism and one part optimism. The interest of course is part of my natural curiosity about almost anything – which is why I guess I enjoy hosting a talk radio […]

Security in the Cloud and other (unscripted) musings from leading industry experts

July 13, 2010

In yesterday’s post “Calculating Digital Capital and what it means to traditional ERP vendors” I had referenced an article by DK Matai that appeared in the July 12th edition of the Huffington Post. Titled “Digital Capital and Cloud Computing’s Asymmetric Risks,” I focused predominantly on the Digital Capital aspect of Matai’s musings as it related to […]

Business Intelligence In 140 Characters Or Less

July 13, 2010

Broadcasting live from the Strategic Social Media for Healthcare Conference in New York City, the PI Window on Business will cover key sessions of the conference as well as on the spot interviews with conference attendees and participants. In today’s post we will feature the session by Thurston Hatcher and Marie Mahoney from Rush Medical […]

New Contracting Intelligence Blog Officially Launched

July 5, 2010

Over the July 4th long weekend, the new Contracting Intelligence Blog was launched here on WordPress. Referencing industry luminaries such as the former U.S. Federal Government’s CIO under the Bush Administration, Karen Evans who oversaw $70 billion US in IT acquisitions, and the ever engaging, highly cerebral founder and CEO of IACCM, Tim Cummins (in […]

Attack on NextLevelPurchasing.com Site Despicable

June 27, 2010

We continue to fight off the DDoS attack on NextLevelPurchasing.com that I reported on Wednesday. Our technology partners have reported that our website is being hit 300 – 1,000 times per second with malicious traffic, crashing the server and rendering the website inaccessible. We continue to work on implementing solutions in the hope that access […]