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You can’t legislate skill sets!
November 3, 2010
As is the case with any writer, it is never my intent to seek agreement or consensus but to stimulate intelligent and therefore meaningful discussion. Based on the response to yesterday’s post “Is Google’s recent suit against DOI based more on an entitlement mindset or a misguided understanding of transparency?,” this objective was achieved and then […]
PI Window on Business Show will be live on location at 3rd Annual Business of Government Summit
April 15, 2010
The PI Window on Business Show will be on the road covering the 3rd Annual Business of Government Summit at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC on the 27th and 28th of April. Broadcasting live from the venue itself, the PI Window on Business Broadcast Booth which this year is […]
Guest Author Post (Essential Connections): Public Sector Procurement and the Wal-Mart Effect
March 8, 2010
The following is a post that appeared in today’s Essential Connections Blog, referencing my July 9th, 2007 article on how public sector procurement has to a certain degree experienced what I referred to as the WalMart Effect. It is an interesting new Blog focusing on public sector procurement, that features guest posts by industry thought […]
New Essential Connections Blog Launches Guest Author Series
February 26, 2010
The following is today’s post from the Essential Connections Blog. Focusing on public sector procurement, EC (not to be confused with OC) is hoping to become the subject matter expert resource for both suppliers and buyers from the world of government purchasing. Remember to visit the Essential Connections through the following link, and provide your […]
What are the three biggest challenges suppliers face in their efforts to win government business?
February 23, 2010
Being well into the 7-Part “Seven Steps to Success: Jump Start Government Contract Series” with expert author Judy Bradt on the PI Window on Business Show on Blog Talk Radio, the launch of the Public Sector Suppliers Forum on LinkedIn and of course the Essential Connections Blog, we seem to have touched on a hot […]
Latest Government of Canada Procurement Scandal Belies the Very Principles Associated with Effective Purchasing Practices
February 3, 2010
In the opening comments from a recent segment of the PI Window on Business Show in which I had interviewed government contracting expert and author Mark Amtower, I had made reference to the famous Louis Pasteur quote that “Chance favors the prepared mind.” I would of course have to admit that I found myself reflecting […]
The Convergence of Success: The Alignment of Opportunity, Insight, Means and Action
December 7, 2009
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” (Note: Pasteur’s actual words were “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.”) I doubt that when Louis Pasteur first uttered these words during a Lecture at the University of Lille on December 7th 1854 he had envisioned the interdependent, globally connected world within which we live […]
Procurement Insights 
The Two New Books in 2011 That Will Forever Change Public Sector Procurement!
January 4, 2011
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On the PI Window on Business’ second show back in April 2009 I welcomed along with McEvoy Galbraeth and Anne Phillips, Stephen Bauld who at the time was Vice President for the Ontario General Contractors Association and author of the books “Leadership Or The Lack Thereof” and “The Municipal Procurement Handbook (two editions).” For those […]