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Yes Virginia Revisited! Why some e-procurement initiatives succeed and others don’t! *(A Summit Simulpost)
In a recent post that appeared in my Procurement Insights Blog titled The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand, (https://procureinsights.wordpress.com/) I reviewed a series of interviews I had with a senior executive from Ariba as well as members from the company’s PR firm. Of the considerable feedback I received as a result of the […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement, Simulpost
The Privatization of PWGSC: Are Taxpayer Dollars Funding Private Sector Empire Building Within The Government Bureaucracy?
October 16, 2007
You know the old story about peeling back the onion. While the title to today’s post may seem a tad fantastic it is not out of the realm of possibility, at least from an operational perspective. After all just ask the private insurance companies in Manitoba what they thought both before and after that provincial […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Cluster Development and the CAC (PWGSC): Facilitator or Competitor?
October 13, 2007
The original intent of my research for this posting was to determine how the global reach of Consulting and Audit Canada (now called Government Consulting Services under the PWGSC banner) could be used as a vehicle to develop strong domestic clusters that could then be leveraged to deliver products and services internationally. After all, the […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
NPM’s guiding principles for creating a “Slim” State: What Marshall, Tipple and Rotor should have known?
October 6, 2007
I am certain that many of us who have tracked the ongoing saga of the Government of Canada’s Way Forward initiative over the years has undoubtedly read Kathryn May’s article regarding former PWGSC Deputy Minister David Marshall’s testimony at the Federal Labor Relations Board Hearing regarding the dismissal of Douglas Tipple and David Rotor (Ottawa Citizen, […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
News and Updates – October 2007
October 4, 2007
It is conference season, and having just returned from speaking at the National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP) New York Chapter’s Annual Fall Conference I thought that I would share some of the other notable events and happenings in the world of procurement. By the way the NAEP event was very well organized and it […]
Posted in: News & Updates
The FOSS(ilization) of the supply chain: The risks of a strategy centered on Free and Open Source Software
September 27, 2007
I recently reviewed (actually browsed as there were only10 PowerPoint slides in total) a Government of Canada presentation to attendees of the September 2006 CIO Summit in Ottawa. Titled “IM/IT Government in Canada . . . Open to Business” the presentation emphasized the fact that “change is the only constant.” Referencing a transformation agenda which […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends, Public Sector Procurement
Yes Virginia! There is more to e-procurement than software! (Part 2)
September 20, 2007
In Part 1 of this posting, I shared with you information from my recent interview with Bob Sievert (Director, eProcurement Bureau for the Commonwealth of Virginia). As indicated, Bob had contacted me in response to the Ariba posting (The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand, August 31, 2007) indicating that their experiences would “fit […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Yes Virginia! There is more to e-procurement than software! (Part 1)
September 12, 2007
My recent post on the series of interviews I had with Ariba garnered considerable interest and feedback. By far the most interesting (and insightful) comments came from the Commonwealth of Virginia. What was compelling about the Virginia response was their willingness to provide a perspective from what they referred to as the “other side of […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand?
August 31, 2007
Earlier this month I was contacted by Ariba’s PR firm indicating that they wanted to schedule an interview between myself and a senior executive from the company. The purpose for the interview was to discuss Ariba’s latest contract win in the Healthcare sector. For those of you who may not already be aware, Horizon Blue […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Public Sector Procurement Practice and the Principles of External Economies, Clustering and the Global Value Chain
August 28, 2007
Can the public sector effectively apply the principles of External Economies to its procurement practice? “External economies of scale (ES) occur outside of a firm, within an industry. Thus, when an industry’s scope of operations expands due to, for example, the creation of a better transportation network, resulting in a subsequent decrease in costs for […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends
Procurement Insights 
October 23, 2007
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