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Still Waters Run Deep: A Profile of cloudBuy’s Nilesh Gopali by Jon Hansen
One of the most exciting elements of Procurement Insights’ New Wave Companies Program, is that it does not provide an expansive list of vendors or, attempt to fall back on the familiar features, functions, benefits framework of the past. Let’s face it, the myriad of lists and quadrants over the years have done little in […]
Posted in: New Wave Companies
In A Quest For Context, NIGP and ISM Comparison Raise Very Interesting Questions by Jon Hansen
May 4, 2015
There is a saying that the numbers don’t lie, so lets go right to the numbers and then analyze what they really mean. In the year ending 2012, here are the numbers for both the NIGP and ISM* per their respective 990 submissions. By the way I referenced these returns, as they were the most recent in […]
Request For Clarification Of NIGP Chief Exec’s Expenses, Solicits A Slower Response Than Expected by Jon Hansen
May 2, 2015
“In recent years, actual and perceived abuses in the area of executive expenses and “perks” have been among the leading causes of stricter federal tax laws governing nonprofit organizations and greater scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service of the practices of nonprofit organizations in the United States. Many organizations struggle with this area of compliance.” […]
“When It Comes To The NIGP, Just Follow The Money Mr. Hansen . . . Follow The Money” by Jon Hansen
April 30, 2015
This morning by way of e-mail, I received from the NIGP’s Executive Director – Finance & Administration Tina Borger, electronic copies of the not-for-profit’s 990 documents for their fiscal years FY13, FY12, and FY11. I have to admit that I did not open them right away. My reason for the delay was quite simple. I knew that once […]
A Study In Absolute Power At The NIGP? by Jon Hansen
April 30, 2015
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” – John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton One of the greatest challenges with covering the #CodeGate story, is navigating through the seeming complexity of a tangled web of cross purposes and conflicting interests, in an effort to get at a simple truth . […]
Perfect Commerce Weighs In On The Deep Throat Connection Post by Jon Hansen
April 29, 2015
Thank you, Jason. I will share this with our readers. Please keep in mind that I was not the one to reveal Mr. Blaine’s identity, but said revelation came as a result of his being named by Rick Grimm as one of the respondents to the very RFI he had provided comment on in the […]
Reflections Of A Newly Departed CPO by Alastair Merrill
April 29, 2015
Originally posted on Procurement Insights EU Edition:
How do you sum up five years and seven months? It was July 2009 that I took up the post of the Scottish Government’s Procurement and Commercial Director. And in February 2015, after fourteen years almost to the day as a civil servant in Scotland, I left Her…
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Is Respected George Washington University Director of Government Procurement Law The Fall Guy In The NIGP Consulting RFI Controversy? by Jon Hansen
April 28, 2015
“I have been active in NIGP for many years. I have seen it go from an almost ‘mom and pop’ operation to a well-respected international organization. As organizations grow there are growing pains. Pressures are placed upon the organization to provide more and more services. Rick Grim has taken on that challenge and has worked […]
Rosslyn’s “Five Ways” Webinar And How To Find The Value From Big Data by Jon Hansen
April 28, 2015
“More importantly, how are we being equipped to handle Doug Laney’s volume, velocity, variety hypothesis relating to data growth, and the amount of information that bombards us on a daily even hourly basis? In essence are we controlling the data or is the data controlling us and, are we seeing more but knowing less?” – […]
Posted in: News & Updates
The Deep Throat 2015 – Perfect Commerce Connection by Jon Hansen
April 27, 2015
Since the #CodeGate story broke, I have been kept somewhat busy with the inflow of information regarding the internal goings on at the NIGP. It feels like I have taken more than 100 pages of notes and reviewed even more in terms of documents online and otherwise provided. What has enabled me to write the posts […]
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