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How Do You Showcase Your Skill Levels, Ambition & Preparedness For The Future? By Charles Dominick, SPSM, SPSM2
November 19, 2012
Editor’s Note: Charles is founder, president and chief procurement officer of Next Level Purchasing, which offers the SPSM (Senior Professional in Supply Management) family of certifications. Be sure to check out Charles’ Purchasing Certification Blog. Professional development in procurement. Some organizations consider it essential for continuous corporate improvement. Some procurement professionals consider it essential for […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
A Tale of Two Princes: A Modern Day Story with a Machiavellian Twist (Part 1 of 3)
November 14, 2012
Editor’s Note: The following is a post that appeared in Roz Usheroff’s The Remarkable Leader Blog. Shortly after this post was written, Microsoft gave Steven Sinofsky the proverbial boot. Even though both Forstall and Sinofsky had incredible success in driving the fortunes of their respective companies, they had reputations for being extremely difficult to work […]
Posted in: Commentary, Guest Posting
How High is Your Procurement ‘EI’? by Kelly Barner
November 12, 2012
One of the best things about being active in social networking is that people ask you questions you don’t know the answer to. I never mind admitting to not having an answer, but like to follow that response with, “let me see what I can find out…” I was recently asked what I knew about […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
Outsourcing by Colin Cram FCIPS
November 9, 2012
Since 1990 it has sometimes seemed that no UK government could outsource enough. The Labour Party, for the information of those readers outside the UK, is generally thought to be the most left wing of the main political parties and, as its name suggests, has a close relationship with the trades unions. However, when it […]
Posted in: Guest Posting, Outsourcing & Shared Services
Reactive vs. Proactive vs. “Noactive” Procurement Professional Development By Charles Dominick, SPSM, SPSM2
November 8, 2012
Editor’s Note: Charles is founder, president and chief procurement officer of Next Level Purchasing, which offers the SPSM (Senior Professional in Supply Management) Certification. Be sure to check out Charles’ Purchasing Certification Blog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How many times have you seen articles or been in training sessions or had performance reviews where the concepts […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
Top PI Blog Posts Countdown No. 1: Managing Supply Chain Risk (The Nokia and Ericsson Case Study)
November 5, 2012
Editor’s Note: I have now hit 1,000 Procurement Insights blog posts. Over the past week, and leading up to this milestone, I have been sharing with you the top 5 posts in terms of overall reads. Today’s submission, which ranked number 1 with 14,649 reads, was written on May 18th, 2011. It is amazing to […]
Posted in: Commentary
Top PI Blog Posts Countdown No. 2: Double Marginalization and the Decentralized Supply Chain
November 2, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post (we are now at 999 posts), I have over the past week, been sharing with you the top 5 posts in terms of overall reads. Today’s submission, which ranked number 2 with 13,077 reads, was written on August 9th, 2007. The focus of the […]
Posted in: Commentary
Top PI Blog Posts Countdown No. 3: Is There a Difference Between Purchasing and Procurement? (A PI Q&A)
November 1, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post, over the next week I will be sharing with you the top 5 posts in terms of overall reads. Today’s submission, which ranked number 3 with 8,515 reads, was written on July 21st, 2008. Posing the simple yet seemingly powerful question “is there a […]
Posted in: Commentary
Top PI Blog Posts Countdown No. 4: Rosslyn Analytics Adaptive Intelligence Reflects Scientific Principles
October 31, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post, over the next week I will be sharing with you the top 5 posts in terms of overall reads. Today’s submission, which ranked number 4 with 7,607 reads, was written on January 27th, 2010. What makes the ranking of this post interesting is that […]
Posted in: Commentary
Procurement Insights 
Is supplier diversity really that important? (Part 1 of 3)
November 27, 2012
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As highlighted in the above image from the Cigna website, supplier diversity is important because the company believes that . . . “the success of minority- and women-owned businesses and other under-represented suppliers adds to our success and to that of the communities we serve. Minority- and women-owned businesses are often in neighborhoods that benefit […]