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How leadership repeatedly under-mines their most valuable procurement asset

November 20, 2007

At a recent conference in which my Dangerous Supply Chain Myths seminar was introduced to a new audience, I was related a story that was both compelling and disconcerting. Compelling in that it clearly demonstrated a lack of stakeholder collaboration, disconcerting in that it is an occurrence that is played over and over again within […]

Reader Question: Is a strong small business sector important to the stability and growth of a nation’s economy?

November 10, 2007

In a word yes! And the critical role that public sector (government) policy plays in terms of being the primary link between successful domestic engagement and effective international cluster development cannot be underestimated. From a domestic engagement perspective, public sector procurement practices are leading to an erosion of the overall supply base. This escalating level […]

Can present day PWGSC woes be traced back to a 1995 article on the General Services Administration in the U.S.?

October 26, 2007

“Of all the agencies and departments that have been discussed for privatization this year, the GSA would be one of the easiest to privatize. Its many services are available from the private sector, whose more successful firms offer a blueprint for how a privatized GSA could survive and thrive in a competitive environment. Moreover, because […]

Yes Virginia Revisited! Why some e-procurement initiatives succeed and others don’t! *(A Summit Simulpost)

October 23, 2007

In a recent post that appeared in my Procurement Insights Blog titled The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand, (https://procureinsights.wordpress.com/) I reviewed a series of interviews I had with a senior executive from Ariba as well as members from the company’s PR firm. Of the considerable feedback I received as a result of the […]

The Privatization of PWGSC: Are Taxpayer Dollars Funding Private Sector Empire Building Within The Government Bureaucracy?

October 16, 2007

You know the old story about peeling back the onion. While the title to today’s post may seem a tad fantastic it is not out of the realm of possibility, at least from an operational perspective. After all just ask the private insurance companies in Manitoba what they thought both before and after that provincial […]

Cluster Development and the CAC (PWGSC): Facilitator or Competitor?

October 13, 2007

The original intent of my research for this posting was to determine how the global reach of Consulting and Audit Canada (now called Government Consulting Services under the PWGSC banner) could be used as a vehicle to develop strong domestic clusters that could then be leveraged to deliver products and services internationally. After all, the […]

NPM’s guiding principles for creating a “Slim” State: What Marshall, Tipple and Rotor should have known?

October 6, 2007

I am certain that many of us who have tracked the ongoing saga of the Government of Canada’s Way Forward initiative over the years has undoubtedly read Kathryn May’s article regarding former PWGSC Deputy Minister David Marshall’s testimony at the Federal Labor Relations Board Hearing regarding the dismissal of Douglas Tipple and David Rotor (Ottawa Citizen, […]

The FOSS(ilization) of the supply chain: The risks of a strategy centered on Free and Open Source Software

September 27, 2007

I recently reviewed (actually browsed as there were only10 PowerPoint slides in total) a Government of Canada presentation to attendees of the September 2006 CIO Summit in Ottawa. Titled “IM/IT Government in Canada . . . Open to Business” the presentation emphasized the fact that “change is the only constant.” Referencing a transformation agenda which […]

Yes Virginia! There is more to e-procurement than software! (Part 2)

September 20, 2007

In Part 1 of this posting, I shared with you information from my recent interview with Bob Sievert (Director, eProcurement Bureau for the Commonwealth of Virginia). As indicated, Bob had contacted me in response to the Ariba posting (The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand, August 31, 2007) indicating that their experiences would “fit […]

Yes Virginia! There is more to e-procurement than software! (Part 1)

September 12, 2007

My recent post on the series of interviews I had with Ariba garnered considerable interest and feedback. By far the most interesting (and insightful) comments came from the Commonwealth of Virginia. What was compelling about the Virginia response was their willingness to provide a perspective from what they referred to as the “other side of […]