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Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 7): Enabling Technology – The Emergence of the Metaprise
August 22, 2011
Orchestrating procurement technology has been a long time coming - is it finally a reality?
Posted in: Commentary, Supply Chain Myths
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 6): Enablement of the Supply Management Organization – Balancing Capability with Control
August 20, 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 5): Talent Attraction and Retention – An Exercise in Platitudes?
August 19, 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 4): Internal & External Collaboration – A Desire versus Skill!
August 18, 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 3): Multiple Supply Chain Networks – An Issue of Timing versus Concept Validity?
August 17, 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 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 […]
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(Epilogue) Response to Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series telling . . . especially Part 5 on talent attraction and retention
August 23, 2011
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Continuing relevancy is based more on a state of mind versus a state of time. Nowhere was this fact more evident than it was with the re-release of my 2007 series Dangerous Supply Chain Myths. Centered on my analysis of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Succeeding in a Dynamic World report, the series was […]