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Is Silence Golden (PART 2): A Question Of Relevance?
September 11, 2025
Why are associations and analyst firms playing catch-up on emerging procurement industry trends?
NASPO State and Local Government Procurement: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition
November 4, 2024
What is in stroe for Public Sector procurement in 2025 and beyond?
NASPO Sent Me A Tweet Regarding Podcast – Here Is My Response!
April 27, 2022
NASPO tweet regarding podcast opens up the door to the past - and perhaps the next Top 20 show of FeedSpot?
NASPO Response Explains Why Some View Procurement As A Second Class Profession
April 20, 2016
Over the years I have been a passionate advocate for the procurement profession. While I dutifully covered stories such as the 2007 CPO Agenda Roundtable, in which participating executives expressed the believe that the best person to run a purchasing department was someone who doesn’t have a purchasing background I, like most in our profession, took […]
Why the procurement world should take note of Bernie Sanders’ closing statement
April 18, 2016
While I am not a Bernie Sanders supporter – as a Canadian I can’t obviously vote in the US election anyway – I have experienced first hand the uneven advantage that money brings to a select few (McDonald’s, SciQuest and Lady Justice: Why The Canadian Judicial System Fails Its Citizens and, NIGP Counsel: Non-profit organization will not release the […]
Hawaii moves away from the NIGP Code . . . will other states follow? by Jon Hansen
June 2, 2015
IMPORTANT NOTICE! HIePRO currently uses NIGP (National Institute of Governmental Purchasing) commodity codes to connect vendors to the solicitations they are interested via e-mail notifications. In August 2015, the State Procurement Office (SPO) will change the commodity code classification system from the NIGP codes to the NAICS (North American Industry Code System) code. The e-mail […]
The NASPO Factor: Has The NIGP Awakened A Sleeping Giant? by Jon Hansen
May 6, 2015
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” – Isoroku Yamamoto The following is a hypothetical conversation regarding where NASPO might fit in relative to the NIGP #CodeGate scandal: The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO), Inc. was formally established on January 29, […]
Procurement Insights 
When did the following organizations’ blogs start covering Agentic AI in the supply chain, and how does that compare to Hansen’s coverage going back to 1998: SIG, DPW,ISM,NIGP, and NASPO?
September 11, 2025
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Why is World CC's Tim Cummins' comment the exclamation point for my Agentic AI 1998 coverage?