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IACCM Survey seeks to understand what the future holds for public sector professionals
When IACCM CEO Tim Cummins dropped me a line asking if I would be willing to extend to our audience base the organization’s latest survey seeking to understand how the shifting public sector landscape is likely going to affect government procurement professionals, I was more than pleased to accommodate the request based on my respect […]
Synergy 2011 Celebrates 10 Years of Delivering Insight to a Changing Industry
May 3, 2011
Corporate United, the nation’s largest group purchasing organization, is pleased to announce its SYNERGY 2011 conference will be held May 3-5 at The Hotel Sax in Chicago, IL. SYNERGY 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of this industry-leading spend management conference. This event promises to bring together the foremost supply chain and spend management professionals for […]
Former key executive for successful Scottish Government initiative talks about automation success and failure
April 28, 2011
Ian Burdon, who recently entered the ranks of the private sector, and has held a number of key executive positions within the Scottish Government including being at the helm of the eProcurement Scotland initiative as it’s Program Manager and chief champion, joined me earlier today on the PI Inquisitive Eye from the UK. Ian provided […]
Are Discriminatory and Preferential Government Procurement Practices Damaging to International Trade? One Might Think So . . .
April 2, 2011
Discriminatory or preferential procurement practices can take several explicit forms, including “outright exclusion” in which foreign bidders are excluded from the tendering process (for example, defense contracts are often, but not always, reserved for domestic suppliers). Under “preferential price margin,” purchasing entities accept the bids of domestic suppliers over foreign suppliers as long as the […]
Access to spend data is not the same as access to meaningful intelligence
March 29, 2011
NOTE: The following is today’s post from the Rosslyn Analytics Blog. Governments are significant purchasers of goods and services and these markets represent huge opportunities for international trade. Measuring government procurement for a large number of countries, in a consistent manner, is not a trivial task and careful attention must be paid to ensure that […]
Emancipating Your IT Department Through Web-Based Spend Intelligence
March 4, 2011
Viador Business Intelligence, Reporting and Analytical solutions are entirely web-based and can be hosted in a local environment or in the Cloud. We bring over 15 years of Business Intelligence and Analytics expertise to business reporting and analysis. from the Home Page of the Viador website References to Spend Intelligence seems to come up from every direction, every day […]
Supply Chain Finance (Part 2) Efficiency Over Financing: A 30 Year Public Sector Executive Provides His Take On Supply Chain Financing
March 2, 2011
No, this is the “cost” of doing business with the government. B2G is NOT for everyone and there are no guarantees that after 19.5 months business will occur. There are resources to help companies long the way, though: PTACs, SBDCs and SCORE are all excellent – see links below. Like any market niche, there are […]
A CFO provides his perspective on the question of supply chain finance in the public sector
February 25, 2011
A funny thing happened on the way to writing Part 2 of the planned series on Supply Chain Finance . . . a debate broke out. Of course I would prefer a good debate any day over the monologue associated with a single discourse. It is in this spirit of conversational exchange, that I am […]
Procurement Insights 
May 4, 2011
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