Syndicated PI Ping

June 26, 2009

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Today’s PI Window on Business Show, “Emerging Giants: The New Titan’s of the SaaS World” is now available through the following link; http://ping.fm/pR1o8

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(Guest Post) Optimization on the Ground: Making Complex Decisions Easier, Enabling Hard and Fast Savings

June 25, 2009

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By Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, Emptoris, Inc. This article is the third in a three-part series of guest articles on optimization by Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, with Emptoris, the supply and contract management solutions provider. In the two previous posts I have provided somewhat of a birds-eye view of optimization, particularly in terms […]

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Which is your first choice as a business information source?

June 25, 2009

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In a recent segment of the PI Window on Business Show titled “Has Blogging Crossed The Threshold of Legitimacy,” an esteemed guest panel discussed the advent of Blogging and other forms of social media as a viable and reliable source of information.  Some have even gone so far as to suggest that these emerging mediums […]

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BILL McANENY – FRANKENSTEIN’S MANAGER

June 24, 2009

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21st Century Leadership: An Evolutionary Profile (Guest Profile: Bill McAneny) Bill McAneny, is an organisational psychologist based near London.  As well as his international consulting work and design of online learning and assessment systems Bill is also the author of “Frankenstein’s Manager” which outlines why management training does not lead to better-performing managers.  Bill is […]

Redefining Procurement: How Coupa has bridged the Gap Between what is known and what is possible

June 23, 2009

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White Paper Excerpt: It is not often that I encounter something truly remarkable within a world of that which is commonly “known.”  What is even more amazing is that it is often the seemingly obvious that delivers the greatest surprise. For many years and with funding from the Government of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental […]

Next Level Purchasing: Translating Success

June 23, 2009

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“The goal of a good translation is when the source and the target texts communicate the same message . . . Measuring Success in Translation, an industry axiom When I received an advanced copy of Next Level Purchasing’s press release announcing that they  were about to introduce a Spanish Speaking version of their highly acclaimed […]

Whistletree: The Power of Simplicity

June 22, 2009

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The July 30th PI Window on Business segment will focus on the advent of virtual conferencing, webinars and of course presentation creation and management within this evolving digital realm. As part of my research I have signed-up for numerous trial licenses, sat through countless non-related “product” demonstrations in an effort to determine which virtual solution […]

E2open: The Critical Linchpin of Enterprise Integration and Synchronization

June 21, 2009

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Multi-Enterprise Business Process Platforms (MEBPPs) and Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBAs) have always been interesting to me from both a practical operational standpoint as well as a technological “architecture” perspective. With the former, I have always considered MEBPPs the sustaining grace for traditional enterprise applications and the clients who remained manacled to an IT-centric view of […]

The Weekly Cause: Community Bridges

June 19, 2009

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With the dramatic growth in readership since being launched in May 2007 (Procurement Insights currently reaches more than 300,000 syndicated subscribers each month worldwide), and the tremendous response to the new PI Window on Business Show on Blog Talk Radio, social media has certainly played a significant part in our success. And while business endeavors […]

“Emerging Giants: The New Titans of the SaaS World” (Guest Profile, Steve Wargalla – QStrat)

June 19, 2009

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As part of our June 25th segment “Emerging Giants; The New Titans of the SaaS World,” we will be featuring senior executives from five of these future “Titans,” highlighting why their organizations are unique, capable and well positioned to reverse the trend of failed initiatives associated with the traditional licensing model vendors. Joining me on June […]