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24 of the most influential people in procurement
I was both honored and humbled to have made this list. Obviously a big thanks to Procurious for including me in a group that also has Buyers Meeting Point’s Kelly Barner and Hal Good. However, the real credit goes to you my readers and listeners. Thank you for tuning in all these years. Of course the next few […]
Posted in: News & Updates
The Importance Of Finding Employees With An Inner Rudy by Roz Usheroff
November 24, 2014
Originally posted on The Remarkable Leader:
“You just summed up your entire sorry career here in one sentence! If you had a tenth of the heart of Ruettiger, you’d have made All-American by now! As it is, you just went from third team to the prep team! Get out of here!” Even though I am…
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Expert panel weighs in on how to “Leverage The Power of Procurement” at Virginia Forum 2014
November 21, 2014
This past week I had the great privilege of moderating a panel discussion on Leveraging The Power of Procurement at the Virginia 2014 Forum. The guest panel, which featured IACCM’s Tim Cummins, NIGP’s Chief Executive Rick Grimm, The Hackett Group’s Chris Sawchuk and author-educator Kate Vitasek, provided an insightful and thought-provoking look at a profession […]
Posted in: Commentary, News & Updates
In which way does this picture make you think of procurement?
November 20, 2014
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in seeing the cover of the recent issue of The New Yorker’s 2014 Cartoons Of The Year in an airport store, I was immediately reminded of procurement. In fact so much so, I actually purchased a copy of the magazine. While I will in a future […]
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement knows what’s cooking in the kitchen by Jon Hansen
November 14, 2014
Every now and then, it is fun to step outside of your everyday profession and share something new about yourself. For example, while my passion is procurement, I do have other interests such as cooking. Because of this, Jennifer and I were recently guests on a local television show, in which I shared my award winning burger […]
Posted in: Commentary
Public Procurement Finds Itself in Trouble. Again. by Kelly Barner
November 13, 2014
Why is it that every time public sector procurement (which is the only procurement most people are familiar with) makes the news, it’s because they have done something ridiculous? I think sometimes public sector procurement gets a bad rap, with a few bad actors serving as the basis for broadly generalized low expectations. The public […]
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Are You In Good With Your Boss Quiz?
November 7, 2014
Originally posted on The Remarkable Leader:
Is your relationship with your boss made in heaven, or is it closer to the other place? Take the following quiz to find out if you are in tight with the top dog or, need to start building your relationship. Question 1 – Is your boss always looking over…
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The Procurement Value Proposition at a glance by Gerard Chick
October 31, 2014
Editor’s Note: As a follow-up to my interview with Dr. Robert Handfield earlier this week regarding his new book The Procurement Value Proposition, his co-author Gerard Chick has written the following post that picks up and expands on some of the discussion points from our conversation. The big business idea of the last 30 years […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
Is the acquisition cup half full or half empty: Xchanging and SciQuest One Year Later by Jon Hansen
October 29, 2014
A year ago this past September 20th, I wrote the post titled Is the acquisition cup half full or half empty: A tale of two takeovers! In it I talked about the stark differences – at least they were stark to me – between the Xchanging acquisition of Chicago-based MM4, and the purchase of CombineNet […]
Posted in: Commentary
Why companies don’t sign contracts by Tom Moore
October 29, 2014
Originally posted on Procurement Insights EU Edition:
It is surprising how often contracts between companies are not signed or executed properly. Case law is full of examples of disputes occurring between organisations who are both working to an unsigned contract. These usually centre on ‘contract by performance’ issues, i.e. there was a contract sort of…
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Procurement Insights 
November 25, 2014
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