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Is Cisco Really Driving 21st Century Supply Chain Innovation?
Earlier this year, World Trade Magazine’s Neil Shister wrote an article titled “The 21st Century Supply Chain: Cisco Builds a Supply Chain.” Beside the article itself, what I found particularly interesting was his adjunct sidebar interview with Cisco’s Vice President, Worldwide Manufacturing Angel Mendez. Mr. Mendez, who Mr. Shister referred to as a “bona fide […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends
The Continuing Dangers of Vendor Rationalization
November 27, 2007
As mentioned in my previous post, the feedback I receive from procurement professionals who attend my conferences never fail to make an impact in terms of the grassroots challenges they face on a daily basis. Often times, it is the adherence to long held beliefs and strategies that undermine their efforts to deliver maximum value […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends
How leadership repeatedly under-mines their most valuable procurement asset
November 20, 2007
At a recent conference in which my Dangerous Supply Chain Myths seminar was introduced to a new audience, I was related a story that was both compelling and disconcerting. Compelling in that it clearly demonstrated a lack of stakeholder collaboration, disconcerting in that it is an occurrence that is played over and over again within […]
Posted in: Professional Development, Public Sector Procurement
Reader Question: Is a strong small business sector important to the stability and growth of a nation’s economy?
November 10, 2007
In a word yes! And the critical role that public sector (government) policy plays in terms of being the primary link between successful domestic engagement and effective international cluster development cannot be underestimated. From a domestic engagement perspective, public sector procurement practices are leading to an erosion of the overall supply base. This escalating level […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Two New Seminars from Procurement Insights
November 1, 2007
(Conference No. 1) Developing a Dynamic Public Sector Supply Base This seminar examines in detail the critical elements that public sector policy plays in terms of being the primary link between successful Domestic Engagement and effective International Cluster Development. From a domestic engagement perspective, public sector procurement practices are leading to an erosion of the […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Can present day PWGSC woes be traced back to a 1995 article on the General Services Administration in the U.S.?
October 26, 2007
“Of all the agencies and departments that have been discussed for privatization this year, the GSA would be one of the easiest to privatize. Its many services are available from the private sector, whose more successful firms offer a blueprint for how a privatized GSA could survive and thrive in a competitive environment. Moreover, because […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Yes Virginia Revisited! Why some e-procurement initiatives succeed and others don’t! *(A Summit Simulpost)
October 23, 2007
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
Procurement Insights 
December 3, 2007
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