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#eVAForum2013 The procurement professional’s Achilles heel by Jon Hansen
November 5, 2013
“Procurement professionals are great at delivering value, but terrible at promoting their value to their organization and beyond.” This is the statement I made to open my second session at last weeks 25th Annual Public Procurement Forum in Virginia. Titled Strategically Speaking: Procurement, the Organization and You, I focused on the significant changes that are […]
Top PI Blog Posts Countdown No. 3: Is There a Difference Between Purchasing and Procurement? (A PI Q&A)
November 1, 2012
Editor’s Note: As we approach my 1,000th Procurement Insights blog post, over the next week I will be sharing with you the top 5 posts in terms of overall reads. Today’s submission, which ranked number 3 with 8,515 reads, was written on July 21st, 2008. Posing the simple yet seemingly powerful question “is there a […]
SPONSOR NEWS: Corporate United SYNERGY 2009, Katzscan Newsletter, eWorld Conference and LM3 Sustainable Features
December 12, 2008
(Corporate United) – Corporate United (Procurement Insights newest sponsor), the nation’s largest group purchasing organization, will host its eighth annual SYNERGY conference May 12 – 14, 2009 at The Conrad Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. SYNERGY 2009 will feature presentations by: Former CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company Jim Donald Mickey North Rizza, research director of the […]
Procurement Insights “Syndication” Network Continues To Grow
March 3, 2008
Since launching the Procurement Insights Blog in May of 2007 distribution of our posts and corresponding articles through an expanding network of publications and web sites means that PI is now reaching tens of thousands of readers around the globe. While we still have a predominantly North American readership base, over the next few months […]
Supply Chain Confidence? (A PI Q and A)
February 28, 2008
The following is an interesting question I received from a Master of Science (M.Sc.) Business Technologies student who is working on her thesis “Measuring Confidence in Supply Chain Management System: An empirical approach.” Reader Question: My name is Diana Esparza, M.Sc. Electronic Business Technologies full time student at the University of Ottawa. Currently, I am […]
Procurement Insights 
Who Are Procurement’s New Leaders? by Jon Hansen
January 27, 2015
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My most recent post titled The Face of Procurement’s Generation Next, has garnered considerable attention throughout the social media world, including some interesting comments in a number of social networking sites. One reaction however stood out, as the perspective offered by the reader served to remind us that despite the profession’s elevation from that of a functional […]