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Are public sector employees on the endangered species list?
July 24, 2012
In today’s post by Buyers Meeting Point’s Kelly Barner (Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You?), she talks about how “many governments in Europe are considering austerity measures,” and “reducing national debt by spending less, particularly on public service.” Based on a recent article which indicated that since 2009 approximately 600,000 state and local […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You? by Kelly Barner
July 24, 2012
Today’s economic updates are full of sour news – we hear about faltering stability in the Euro Zone caused by high debt to GDP ratios and high rates of unemployment in Greece, Spain and Italy. North America is dealing with their own economic contraction: both the U.S. and Canada face increasing unemployment, slow job creation, […]
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Who should drive the procurement of innovation policy? by Dr. John Rigby
July 18, 2012
We have got to an interesting point now in the debate over the procurement of innovation. The major question for policy makers is who should be implementing this policy. As I said on the show the other week, pre-commercial procurement is at the moment relatively little used but it does form the basis for for […]
GAS Dependency by Colin Cram
July 16, 2012
Isn’t it time that politicians started to think more like top class procurement professionals? The Times newspaper in the UK, on 30 June, had an article by Tim Webb, its energy editor, about how the ‘Russian stranglehold on UK gas supplies is set to get tighter’. ‘Britain’s dependence on imported Russian gas is set to […]
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4 Procurement Professional Development Profiles, Part II By Charles Dominick, SPSM, SPSM2
July 12, 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. In Part I of this series, I introduced a 2×2 matrix that revealed four different types of procurement professionals in the context […]
Posted in: Professional Development
4 Procurement Professional Development Profiles, Part I By Charles Dominick, SPSM, SPSM2
July 9, 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. I was recently reflecting on my final year of college. During this time, I was interviewing for jobs. At that time, the […]
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Procurement Insights welcomes Dr. John Rigby as a regular columnist to talk about leveraging public procurement to drive innovation
July 5, 2012
On June 28th I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. John Rigby who is one of the UK’s top experts and champions on leveraging public sector procurement as a tool to drive innovation. In the 30 minute segment titled “Public Procurement and Innovation: Towards a European Scheme,” Dr. Rigby provided an interesting perspective on what […]
Check out my article in the latest issue of Supply Chain Quarterly
July 5, 2012
In the latest issue of Supply Chain Quarterly, which is a CSCMP publication, my article titled “The power and promise of Web-based procurement tools” discusses the evolution of supply chain applications on the Internet. Check it out by clicking on the cover icon below: 30
Posted in: Technology
We Come Bearing ‘Bred Heifers’ by Kelly Barner
June 27, 2012
In the late 1930’s, Dan West, a farmer from Indiana, was serving as the director of a relief program in Spain. The country had been ravaged by years of war – World War I and the Spanish Civil War – and the needs for basic provisions were urgent. West realized that supplies of food from […]
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