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Don’t Let Your Implementation Become a ‘Debacle’ by Kelly Barner

November 7, 2013

Editor’s Note: In what is another great post from Buyers Meeting Point’s Kelly Barner, she talks about the reasons why 93% of all large technology projects fail. While I am in agreement with the reasons she gives for these misfires, I believe that the underlying factor that ties them all together is an absence of […]

Breaking News! Watch for our new “A Year in the Life of an eProcurement Start-up” Series Coming Soon

October 24, 2013

Procurement Insights will be launching a special series of blog posts and corresponding radio/TV interviews tracking the progression of a start-up eProcurement software company over a 12 month period in November. The series, which focuses on the evolution of the start-up’s solution from the development stage through to going live in a production environment, will provide an […]

Martha Stewart’s comment that “Bloggers Are Not Experts” is a case of delivering the right message but using the wrong standards by Jon Hansen

October 17, 2013

“Bloggers are writing recipes that aren’t tested, aren’t necessarily very good or are copies of things that really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of …umm…popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that.” – Martha Stewart Nothing beats a good dust-up to get the heart pumping and […]

When it comes to SciQuest, is the defection of Oregon and Colarado a sign that the WSCA wall is crumbling? by Jon Hansen

September 26, 2013

Western States Contracting Alliance (WSCA) Selects SciQuest to Improve Cooperative Purchasing . . . SciQuest Collaborative Procurement Empowers Multi-State Consortium to Streamline Purchasing Processes and Reduce Spending! It doesn’t seem that long ago that the above “news” was broadcast to the world by SciQuest via a press release. On a side note, and in the […]

More than 6 years after my Dangerous Myths post, Jason Busch admits that he kind of got it wrong (Part 1 of 2) by Jon Hansen

June 19, 2013

“I spent five years at FreeMarkets before launching Spend Matters and covering the market as a journalist and analyst . . . I’m a guilty party in terms of reverse auctions and foisting them on suppliers . . . I am also a proponent of them as well, but as you’ll see in our thinking […]

New Forrester report suggests IBM finally got it right in buying Emptoris – I wonder if anyone remembers the IBM Ariba adventure? by Jon Hansen

March 7, 2013

I recently found myself contemplating and writing about life as a parent when one passes the half century mark. Just to be clear right out of the gate, and to avoid a restless night on the family couch, my partner Jennifer is nowhere near 50. This last point clarified, the age factor does come into […]

True or False: Does employee use of mobile devices personally increase end-user adoption of corporate buying solutions?

January 25, 2012

“Capitalizing on employee acceptance of mobile devices in their personal lives, removes the traditional obstacles to adoption of corporate buying solutions on the part of the end user.” The above is an interesting statement with which to introduce this, the first post in our series on the advent of mobile supply chain solutions. Before getting […]

If implementing an eProcurement solution could save the government significant money but in the process cost you or others their job as a buyer what would you do?

June 30, 2011

There were a number of other disputes in the public services during the year with several pay disputes across the UK decentralized civil service pay bargaining arrangements. However, the largest industrial action there involved workers in the Department of Works and Pensions protesting at the planned 30,000 job cuts imposed as part of the Gershon […]

From The Obvious But Overlooked File: COUPA’s “Seven User Adoption Strategies” White Paper

August 12, 2010

Over the past 8 or 9 years I have on occasion made reference to the book “eProcurement: From Strategy to Implementation.” Written by Dale Neef, this book’s enduring insights continue to reflect a prognosticative reach and relevance that transcends both time and technologies. From his prediction that despite the overwhelming benefits of implementing an eProcurement […]