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The IACCM Global Collaborative Platform: Delivering The Power For Change (IACCM Profile)
“The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) is a non-profit foundation recognized as the international authority on the role of contracting and Commitment Management in the global networked economy. A leader in research and innovative learning techniques, IACCM works with corporations, public and academic bodies to provide thought-leadership and understanding of “best practice” […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
Q&A with a Story Guru: Jon Hansen (A Storied Career Interview)
September 15, 2008
“I’m delighted to present the fourth installment in this series of interviews with some of the gurus of both performance and applied storytelling. This interview is with “Cousin” Jon Hansen (actually no relation as far as I know). I “met” Jon through this Blog. He uses storytelling in the procurement sector. Read more about him […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
Source One: The “Thinking” Professional’s Solution (Source One LLC Profile)
September 8, 2008
A Gartner study released at its 2003 Gartner Symposium/Itxpo 2003 stated half of the year’s outsourcing projects would fail to deliver on bottom-line promises. (Information Week; March 26, 2003) “Few Outsourcing mega deals have been successful in the past 10 years – at least 50% fail in the first year and 80% don’t produce any […]
Posted in: Sponsor Profile
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
Procurement Insights 
September 15, 2008
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