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Reality is Boring – China is Better! A Tale of Business in the New World!
January 17, 2011
A modern but timeless global business story in the spirit of James Clavell, China Fortunes is a vast and sweeping tale addressing one of today’s hottest topics – doing business in China. Taking readers on the ground from China’s early opening up to current times, the book traces the changes of fortune and cultural edification […]
Posted in: PI Window on Business (Show)
Procurement Insights Launches Aperçus des achats
January 14, 2011
With our global audience base growing rapidly I guess one could say that it was only a matter of time before we expanded the Procurement Insights brand into other languages. Today we are pleased to announce that we have launched the new Aperçus des achats blog as a means of better connecting with our French […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Ask a simple question about government procurement . . .
January 14, 2011
Perhaps the natural radio host in me is the reason why I am interested in everything that goes on around me and thus like to ask a lot of questions. What is it my mother used to say . . . there is no such thing as a dumb question?! Great advice, and I have […]
Crisp, clean look and Multiple Post Viewing just a few features of our new format
January 12, 2011
A great deal has happened over the past year and as The PI Social Media Network continues to grow through our blogs, Internet radio and television shows as well as social networking and live event coverage one might be inclined to forget (at least temporarily) where it all as they say began. For me personally, […]
Posted in: Commentary
Yesterday’s Interview with one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Innovators Reveals Interesting Opportunities and Conflicts
January 12, 2011
In Ontario, Canada where you attended university at Toronto’s Ryerson, the Provincial Government aired an aggressive advertising campaign promoting the “freshness” of local growers’ produce versus those trucked-in from somewhere far away. In fact the commercial showed I believe either an apple or a tomato bouncing around a truck which had to be picked while […]
Posted in: PI Window on Business (Show)
Is Fragmentation Undermining the Purchasing Profession: IACCM’s Tim Cummins Believes It Is
January 12, 2011
For groups like contract management and procurement, there are no universal standards of practice. Unlike fields such as medicine, engineering and the law, there is no firmly established professional ethic or body of knowledge. And without this, they can never achieve sustainable professional status. Fragmentation clearly works against establishing such standards and ultimately proves inefficient […]
From the American Express Study to The Usual Suspects and the Estimated Cost of Doing Government Business Amtower Delivers Powerful Insights
January 11, 2011
Besides referring to this current period in the above video as “one of the scariest times in recent memory” relative to being on the front lines of government procurement, Mark Amtower delivered a number of very interesting insights during this afternoon’s broadcast as he both explained and quantified the cost of pursuing business with the […]
2010 Will Be A Tough Year to Top . . .
January 8, 2011
Recently the good people at WordPress, who are the gracious hosts for the PI Social Media Network’s stable of blogs . . . I guess that stable would be the right word, provided a rather exceptional report on individual blog performances for the past year. This was a great service on a number of levels, […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Madison Avenue ooops . . . make that Gartner, names Oracle as a leader in supply chain planning
January 7, 2011
The company was founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner. Originally a private company, the Gartner Group was launched publicly in the 1980s, then acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi, a London-based advertising agency, and then acquired in 1990 by some of its executives, with funding from Bain Capital and Dun & Bradstreet. In 2001 the name […]
Posted in: Commentary
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Virginia’s Interim Report of the Governor’s Supplier Diversity Advisory Board is Both Important and Telling
January 18, 2011
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As many of you will readily recall, I had the opportunity and privilege to talk with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s new Secretary of Administration Lisa Hicks-Thomas on the PI Window on Business Show this past December. Here is the link to the on-demand broadcast for those who may have missed it; From Deputy Attorney General […]