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Challenging the Integrity of your Supply Chain: The Weak Links of Hidden Risks (Katzscan Profile)
September 3, 2008
“In the fall of 2004, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, known as COSO, released their Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework, which was authored by PricewaterhouseCoopers. This principles-based framework provides direction and criteria for improving an organization’s ability to manage risk. Moreover, the enterprise risk management framework is fully aligned with […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
Overcoming the challenges of an ineffective RFP process: Improved collaboration through intelligence synchronization (QStrat Profile)
August 29, 2008
I have had close to 30 reader responses to my recent posts on the utilization of the RFP or e-tendering process for the acquisition of goods and services. While there have been successful demonstrations of its utilization relative to MERX (MERX: An Evolution to a Broader Market), and of course the Commonwealth of Virginia’s eVA […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
MERX: An Evolution to a Broader Market (MERX Profile)
August 27, 2008
“Regardless of the moniker, the majority of government initiative elemental roots can be traced back to the New Public Management (NPM) ideology in which efficiency, accountability, decentralisation and marketisation are the main components or drivers (J.E. Lane, Public Sector Reform: Only deregulation, privatization and marketisation, Public Sector Reform, 1997). Since the early 80s the NPM […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
The Web 2.0 Association: Reader Response (CPPC-CCMP Profile)
August 26, 2008
Response to our recent sponsor profile articles is quite active with the posting on services procurement garnering more than 20 comments. As is our normal practice, I am more than pleased to share these comments with you starting with the feedback that was received from a supply chain professional in Panama regarding the August 20th post […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
Leveling the intagible playing field of professional services procurement (Beyond Referrals Profile)
August 19, 2008
“I stated that the worst thing a purchasing person can do when using an RFP to buy professional services is to exclude a project budget. Immediately, a rebuttal was offered, “But if I give them the budget,” stated the attendee, “they are all just going to come in at that budget.” He was right. But […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
The Disconnect between the Procedural Demands and Operational Requirements of Effective Contract Services Engagement (CW Solutions Profile)
August 14, 2008
“You take what you can get in order to pay rent, buy food, she explains. If you can find a group that might have potential for hiring on permanently, you take the risk of staying around and putting in a lot of hours, proving yourself to these folks. She says she has been in several […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
Metric Synchronization Versus Standardization: The Real Value Behind IEE (Smarter Solutions Profile, www.SmarterSolutions.com)
August 11, 2008
“Like a politician stumping for votes, proclamations by senior executives (and many industry pundits) that people and not technology are what is important rarely translates from the realm of oratory pontification into meaningful real-world application. This is due in large part to the fact that outside of the framework of political correctness, communication as Bill […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
Procurement Insights 
September 5, 2008
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