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Former Spend Matters “Analyst” Kase: A VP By Any Other Name . . .
May 1, 2017
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” is a frequently referenced part of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her rival’s house of Montague, that is, that he is named “Montague.” – Wikipedia In Friday’s post 4 Major […]
The Fourth Estate Beckons
April 1, 2017
When I made the decision to move away from accepting sponsors for this blog it was part of a longer-term plan. As many of you already know, I have been at times critical of what I consider to be the absence of real objectivity in the coverage of our industry. It is not that there […]
Answer: Theranos coverage . . . Question: What does the Silicon Valley press and the procurement industry’s media have in common?
May 6, 2016
But if you peel back all of the layers of this tale, at the center you will find one of the more insidious culprits: the Silicon Valley tech press. – from The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess by Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair News May 2nd, 2016 Back in 2010, I wrote a post that did […]
Is The Busch Era Coming To An End . . . Should It Have Started In The First Place? by Jon Hansen
August 14, 2015
You know how they say that a picture is worth a thousand words? Well as it turns out – at least in the case of Jason Busch, a resume also speaks volumes. Before I share with you the results of my research, I am going to pose the following question; if someone has never actually […]
How effective are vendor videos in promoting their brand and services by Jon Hansen
April 3, 2014
Earlier today I receive the link to Year in the Life candidate cloudBuy’s new video. As a 2014 New Wave company, I was of course interested in the video for a number of reasons. To start, and in the context of my July 2013 post “Recent Zycus video demonstrates that even though you are “on” […]
The Bandwagon Effect or why Spend Matters coverage of Coupa speaks to the growing creditability gap of “traditional” industry pundits by Jon Hansen
October 3, 2013
Back on September 18th, 2008 in a post titled “Moving Procurement Practice Beyond Adjunct Complexity” I gave a review of the Coupa solution. I outlined in detail why I believed that the company would become a major player in the then not too distant future. Sharing the news of my belief in the company’s inevitable […]
Does the UK’s new Crown Commercial Service represent the future of public sector procurement? by Jon Hansen
July 24, 2013
A corporate-style overhaul of the way the government buys up to £12bn of goods and services will be announced today as ministers try to use the spur of austerity to change the way Whitehall operates and make savings of around £1bn a year. from the July 23rd, 2013 Financial Times article Business-style agency to run […]
Forrester’s Duncan Jones and His Big Bang Theory Relating to Market Evolution by Jon Hansen
July 10, 2013
“I don’t see any evidence that this product was at all significant in IBM’s decision to acquire Emptoris, let alone be “based on the acquisition” as you seem to be suggesting. Its too early to expect IBM to have coherent plans for what to do with its services procurement product, and while it doesn’t fit […]
Procurement Insights 
10 Years Ago Today Procurement Insights Was Launched
May 18, 2017
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It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years since I first shared with you, my thoughts regarding the procurement world. Of course, back then, I think the only people who read my blog – and not even on a regular basis were close friends and family members. Certainly not the 25,000 plus fantastic […]