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Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 2): Supplier Development and Management: The Fruit of a Poisonous Tree?
August 16, 2011
Each day for the next seven days I will be posting parts 1 through 7 from what is considered to be one of the most popular series in the Procurement Insights Blog’s history. The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Report that was originally […]
Posted in: Commentary, Supply Chain Myths
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 1): The Myth of Consolidation
August 15, 2011
Each day for the next seven days I will be posting parts 1 through 7 from what is considered to be one of the most popular series in the Procurement Insights Blog’s history. The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Report that was originally […]
Posted in: Supply Chain Myths
Losing Vendor Litigation (Part 4): Belt with suspenders purchasing
August 11, 2011
You may very well be right but . . . we followed the proper bid procedure so that is all that matters. Executive Director, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat e-mail response to question regarding unrealistic Way Forward savings forecast I have on many an occasion written about the above referenced e-mail […]
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Losing Vendor Litigation (Part 3): “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.”
August 9, 2011
Initially Champagne was dismissed, not for stealing money, but for approving transactions for which he had no authority. But he knew that as soon as he was out of the building, the audits would turn up trouble. Champagne flew to the Turks to be with his family, and to wait for the mess to hit […]
Losing Vendor Litigation (Part 2): Vendor Side Origins?
August 8, 2011
There is one salient rule for vendors considering the pursuit of government contracts, just one rule . . . people buy from whom they know, like and trust! from April 2010 Washington Keynote address I remember when I gave the above referenced keynote, I was just coming to the end of a special 7-Part Seven […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Sorry about that chief: The old secret uncompetitive bid process involving a foreign vendor trick
August 5, 2011
“Our problem is they’ve given a foreign company, in a secret uncompetitive process, 2,500 megawatts of installed capacity, a portion of the grid that’s larger than (the power from) Niagara Falls,” said Wilson. “Ontario families are tired of secret deals, they’re tired of skyrocketing hydro prices and they’re tired of Dalton McGuinty’s energy experiments.” from […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Losing Vendor Litigation (Part 1): A Reversal of Fortune?
August 4, 2011
It has been noted that fiscal law is not about getting the mission accomplished or getting a good deal for the government. Fiscal law is only about Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch. Thus, fiscal law frequently prevents government agencies from signing an agreement that a commercial entity would not hesitate to execute. Thus, fiscal […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Losing Vendor Litigation . . . It was just a matter of time?!
August 3, 2011
Tendered for a major contract and got rejected? Feel that the process was unfair? Compensation? Our Solicitors can help NO WIN/NO FEE call 0792 12 606 14 (Matt) from the Twitter Profile @TenderDispute You know I have often made reference to Huxley’s “sea of irrelevance” lamentation regarding truth as it pertains to the vastness of […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Socialized Purchasing (Epilogue)
August 2, 2011
Shel Israel, acclaimed author of the new book “Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods” on-demand interview now featured on Blog Talk Radio segment titled; We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: Welcome to Twitterville and the New Business Paradigm!. The above was the opening paragraph to my first interview with The Godfather of […]
Posted in: Commentary, Social Networking
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Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 3): Multiple Supply Chain Networks – An Issue of Timing versus Concept Validity?
August 17, 2011
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Each day for the next seven days I will be posting parts 1 through 7 from what is considered to be one of the most popular series in the Procurement Insights Blog’s history. The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Report that was originally […]