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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
New Wave Company Update: Scout Co-Founder provides his view on the Internet of Things by Jon Hansen
Following up on my previous post in which Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber provided his take on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Things and Humans (IoTH), we also solicited feedback from another of our New Wave companies. I am referring to Year in The Life co-winner Scout RFP. Here is what Scout […]
Posted in: Internet of Things, Year in the Life Series
When the light goes on: How cloudBuy sees the world differently by Jon Hansen
April 29, 2014
Similar to our other New Wave 2014 organizations, there were a number of reasons why we selected cloudBuy as a company to watch this year. From their relationship with Visa through which they are able to address the challenges that smaller suppliers face in terms of over 90 receivables that no longer support their operating […]
Posted in: Commentary
The more things change, the more they stay the same . . . at least in the world of procurement by Jon Hansen
April 25, 2014
I doubt that when French novelist Alphonse Karr coined the phase the more things change, the more they stay the same, he was thinking about procurement. Based upon a March 27th, 2014 Harvard Business Review article by Proxima CEO Matthew Eatough, Karr would not be unique in this regard. In fact if you accept the […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Throwback Thursday: The Origins of Failure for ERP – Jon Hansen on the Coupa Cabana
April 24, 2014
Keeping within the spirit of the social media world’s Throwback Thursday practice – I have used an old photo from my days as President of a publicly traded software company to comply with the image requirement – I thought that I would share the following article that was posted on the Coupa Cabana blog back […]
Posted in: Commentary
New Wave Company Update: Freightos CEO provides his view on the Internet of Things by Jon Hansen
April 24, 2014
Given the increasing media coverage regarding the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Things and Humans (IoTH), it only seems logical to seek out feedback from our New Wave companies. Especially in terms of the Year in The Life co-winners Freightos and Scout RFP. So when I posed the question what are your […]
What IBM was to mainframes and Coupa was to SaaS, Nipendo is to the P2P cloud by Jon Hansen
April 23, 2014
In talking about the Internet of Things and more specifically the Internet of Things and Humans, Eran Livneh wrote the following in his recent Nipendo blog post What is the Internet of Things and what does it mean to the P2P world; “For Procure-to-Pay applications to keep pace with where “Things” are heading, we need […]
Coupa Inspire ’14 Kicks Off With a Bang by Jon Hansen
April 16, 2014
As someone who has from the very beginning loved all things social media whether it be Internet radio and television, chat rooms and webinars or social networking forums, when I received the e-mail inviting me to tune into the Live Ustream broadcast of Coupa Inspire ’14 I was immediately interested. Let’s face it, while face-to-face […]
Posted in: News & Updates
How to overcome making a bad first impression by Roz Usheroff
April 14, 2014
Originally posted on The Remarkable Leader:
I can remember a couple of years ago reading a Forbes article on 5 Ways To Make A Killer First Impression, which had more than 541,000 views. Needless to say, the subject matter is one that is universally recognized as being important. In other words, and looking beyond the…
Posted in: Guest Posting
Advice for Presenters and Attendees of Procurement Webinars by Kelly Barner
April 9, 2014
In a recent post on her Remarkable Leader blog, Roz Usheroff wrote about the importance of being likeable and effective as a virtual speaker. In addition to being a popular and cost effective means of reaching an audience, webinars are convenient ways of capturing content that can be made available on an ongoing basis to […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
New Wave Company Update: Cloud wars veteran cloudBuy ready to overtake Apple, Google and Microsoft by Jon Hansen
April 8, 2014
Can we pick em or can we pick em! Even though New Wave Company 2014 cloudBuy was not selected as our Year in the Life winner, they nonetheless seem to be making some major waves in the market. One example of the company’s extending ripple is an article that appeared in today’s Telegraph. In the […]
Posted in: News & Updates, Year in the Life Series
Procurement Insights 
April 29, 2014
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