I am pleased to welcome Buyers Meeting Points’ Kelly Barner as a regular contributing columnist to the Procurement Insights Blog. Kelly recently received the well deserved honor of being a 2012 Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘Pro to Know’ for her (and partner Cindy Allen-Murphy’s) incredible work in both informing and empowering procurement professionals the […]
On the 28th of March I will have an opportunity to talk with ADR International’s Bill Michel about his organization recently being acquired by the Institute for Supply Management or ISM. For those of you who have followed both this blog and the PI Window on Business Show on Blog Talk Radio, you know that […]
As one might reasonably conclude, my February 8th, 2011 Procurement Insights post titled “According to study conducted over three decades buyers warrant little consideration in terms of value to the organization,” was somewhat incendiary . . . although few actually disagreed outright with its observations. In essence, we all know something is broken but do […]
For groups like contract management and procurement, there are no universal standards of practice. Unlike fields such as medicine, engineering and the law, there is no firmly established professional ethic or body of knowledge. And without this, they can never achieve sustainable professional status. Fragmentation clearly works against establishing such standards and ultimately proves inefficient […]
It was Sir Francis Bacon in his work Meditations which offered the aphorism that “knowledge is power.” Over the years of course this ubiquitous term has probably been attributed to many others besides Bacon, however Sir Francis was and is the first to coin the phrase. Following a similar line of thinking Buyers Meeting Point, […]
When I recently spoke with Buyers Meeting Point “BPM” founder Cindy Allen-Murphy about the exciting things that are happening around her web services site for purchasing professionals, I could not help but look beyond the innovative tools and expanding resources to see the emergence of a true “community of purpose.” As you know, I have often lamented (at […]
We once again welcome our guest panel of Tim McCarthy (IACCM), David Clevenger (Corporate United), Cindy Allen-Murphy (Buyers Meeting Point), and Charles Dominick (Next Level Purchasing) as we discuss the ongoing viability of the traditional association membership model. In this week’s show we delve even deeper into the questions that surround the significant changes and […]
Buyers Meeting Points’ 2012 Pro To Know Kelly Barner becomes a regular PI contributing columnist
April 16, 2012
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I am pleased to welcome Buyers Meeting Points’ Kelly Barner as a regular contributing columnist to the Procurement Insights Blog. Kelly recently received the well deserved honor of being a 2012 Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘Pro to Know’ for her (and partner Cindy Allen-Murphy’s) incredible work in both informing and empowering procurement professionals the […]