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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 […]
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
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Dangerous Supply Chain Myths Revisited (Part 7): Enabling Technology – The Emergence of the Metaprise
August 22, 2011
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Orchestrating procurement technology has been a long time coming - is it finally a reality?