Procurement Insights

(Guest Post) Optimizing Value in the Economic Downturn [and Recovery]

May 13, 2009

By Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, Emptoris This article is the second 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. As we push on through the troubled economic environment, corporate leaders are laser focused on bringing supply chain management […]

Tagged: Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Columbia University, Dr. Olga Raskina, Emptoris, For Want of a Nail: The Pandemic Effect, INFORMS, Informs Subdivisions Council, Nick Kelley, Operations Research and Management Science, Optimizing Value in the Economic Downturn, PI Window on Business, supply chain digest, University of Minnesota

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Prescription for Success: Achieving the Optimal Balance between Procurement Savings and Premium Patient Care (A Procurement Insights Knowledge Leadership Publication)

May 13, 2009

A Health System in Distress “The report comes a day after President Obama embraced a pledge from health-care providers to slow the increase in their costs over the coming decade. The new projections will add to the urgency of controlling those costs.” “Insolvency Is Seen Closer for Social Security and Medicare” New York Times (May […]

Tagged: Bay Pines Medical Center, Bellwether Software, For Want of a Nail: The Pandemic Effect, New York Times, NHS, Onsolvency Is Seen Closer for Social Security and Medicare, PI Window on Business, President Obama, vha

Posted in: News & Updates, Public Sector Procurement, White Papers

Latest Lombardi Blueprint Release offers the ultimate tool for supply chain collaboration and optimization

May 12, 2009

Last week I had the opportunity to see a demonstration of the enhancements made to Lombardi’s already solid Blueprint solution prior to its official launch date, which is today (May 12th, 2009). (NOTE: Here is the link to the Introduction to Blueprint Spring ’09 Webinar.) In a previous review of Lombardi’s Business Process Management offering, […]

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Posted in: News & Updates, Procurement Trends

Are there 80,000 reasons that Alcock borrowed a page from Gershon?

May 11, 2009

“In what has been described as the most significant restructuring of public services for a generation, the rest of the $21 billion (in savings) will have to come from overall efficiency gains such as improving the procurement system, and streamlining areas such as information technology and human resources. That’s why the skeptics are skeptical.” In […]

Tagged: Alicia H. Munnell, BBC, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, CFIB, Corinne Pohlmann, Financial Post, Gershon Efficieny Review, Gershon Review, Pink slips replace gold watches, Reg Alcock, Service Sector of the Treasury Board Secretariat, Service Strategy Development Council, Shared Services, Sir Peter Gershon, The Acquisition and Materiel Management Strategy Development Council

Posted in: News & Updates, Public Sector Procurement

Wayne Wouters, Gershon and the PS Union Suit = Shared Services

May 9, 2009

There were a number of other disputes in the public services during the year with several pay disputes across the UK decentralized civil service pay bargaining arrangements. However, the largest industrial action there involved workers in the Department of Works and Pensions protesting at the planned 30,000 job cuts imposed as part of the Gershon […]

Posted in: News & Updates, Public Sector Procurement

PI Window on Business Welcomes CFIB VP, National Affairs Corinne Pohlmann to Discuss Recent Developments in Government Policy (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Jon-Hansen)

May 8, 2009

As discussed in my April 22nd post “Synchronization Versus Compression Should Guide Government Procurement Process,” I referred to the paucity of either statistical and/or empirical data to support the government’s current course with regard to implementing a Shared Services strategy. Certainly the May 7th press release in which Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) […]

Tagged: Blog Talk Radio, Canadian Federation of Independent Business, Center for Infectious Disese Research and Policy, CFIB, Christian Paradis, Corinne Pohlmann, Minister Christian Paradis, Nick Kelley, PI Window on Business, pwgsc, Shared Services, The Pandemic Effect

Posted in: News & Updates, PI Window on Business (Show), Public Sector Procurement

Latest PWGSC Press Release Changes Little

May 8, 2009

Last evening took an interesting turn as I began to receive notifications of the latest press release from the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Christan Paradis regarding the Government Enterprise Network Services: 2009 Industry Consultations Report. The following is a copy of the press release in its entirety followed of course by my […]

Tagged: 2009 Industry Consultation Report, Ahmed Rubaie, ariba, bernard courtois, CATA, Charles Duffet, Chrsitian Paradis, Government Enterprise Network Services, itac, John Reid, Linda Oliver, Public Works and Government Services Canada, pwgsc, Shared Services

Posted in: News & Updates, Public Sector Procurement

(Guest Post) Why Optimization Matters: Moving Beyond Price Driven Auctions

May 6, 2009

By Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, Emptoris This article is the first 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. As the Lead Scientist for Emptoris and someone who spends a great deal of time focusing on the impact […]

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