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Procurement’s “Real” Acres Of Diamonds In 2025
February 28, 2025
What impact do Commodity Characteristics have on ProcureTech's success?
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 […]
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 […]
A Dichotomy of Perspectives: A Discussion on Forrest Breyfogle’s New Book on Integrated Enterprise Excellence
April 24, 2008
Recently, I had the opportunity to exchange ideas on the veracity of the various models that organizations rely upon as the framework for building a successful enterprise. What prompted this open and productive exchange of ideas was a question that was recently posed regarding the merits of Forrest Breyfogle’s latest book on Integrated Enterprise […]
Procurement Insights 
Another Here We Go Again: This Time SDI Overgeneralizes Tail Spend Managenment And Automation
April 24, 2025
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What are the reasons ProcureTech initiative failures will continue to fail well into the next decade?