PI Window on Business | Procurement Insights

Browsing All posts tagged under »PI Window on Business«

Women on Success Profile: Pat Brown

June 21, 2010

As part of our “Women on Success” Specials, we have already featured Jennifer Allan, Dr. Gaby Cora, Dr. Larina Kase and Karen Evans. In this fifth and final installment I am pleased to introduce you to bestselling author and acclaimed criminal profiler Pat Brown. Remember that our panel discussions air on June 23rd at 10:00 […]

Women on Success Profile: Jennifer Allan

June 21, 2010

As part of our “Women on Success” Specials, I have been featuring each member of our two discussion panels. Today, I am pleased to introduce you to author Jennifer Allan. Remember that our segments air on June 23rd at 10:00 AM EST and 12:00 PM EST, during which time I will be talking with Jennifer […]

Police Shootings Like Plane Crashes Say Authors of “Tasers, Abortion and Parenting: Behind the Curtain of Policing America”

June 18, 2010

Editor’s Note: Having just interviewed Dr. Richard Weinblatt earlier this week on the PI Window on Business segment “America’s Criminal Justice System: Independently Operated, Collectively Focused,” I have to say that I am both excited and honored to be teaming up with Richard to write what will be my third book. The following is an […]

Women on Success Profile: Dr. Larina Kase

June 18, 2010

On June 23rd at 10:00 AM EST and again at 12:00 PM EST I will interviewing five incredible women in a segment titled “Women on Success.” As we approach the June 23rd air date, I have been featuring each member of our discussion panels. Today, I am pleased to introduce you to New York Times […]

Women on Success Profile: Karen Evans

June 17, 2010

As announced in my June 14th post here on the Procurement Insights Blog as well as the PI Window on Business Blog, on June 23rd at 10:00 AM EST and again at 12:00 PM EST I will interviewing five incredible women in a segment titled “Women on Success.” What these women have accomplished both individually […]

You Say Tomatoe, I Say Tomtato: Comparing Men’s and Women’s Definition of Success

June 14, 2010

“Are the differences observed between men and women in business and corporate world a function of biological and psychological differences between the genders or are they mostly a function of cultural learning and cultural definition of gender roles? The author, using data collected on how men and women define success and the source of such […]

Social Media and Health Care: Integrating Health Care to Improve Patient Care

June 7, 2010

“Health care is the most information-intensive industry, yet it lags behind every other sector of the national economy in its adoption of information technology,” Mongiardo said. “The banking industry is 20 years ahead of health care in implementing information technology. A Request for Proposal (RFP) has been issued seeking vendors to help establish this information […]

U.S. 9/11 terrorist attack warrants $18 million for G20 security, London subway attack $30 million and Canadian vandalism of local bank branch $1 billion . . . must be the exchange rate?

June 6, 2010

I must admit that after viewing the video of the recent firebombing of a Royal Bank branch in Ottawa, I initially had reservations about writing what I felt in my gut was not an act of true terrorism but what had every appearance of being an act of vandalism by disenfranchised neighborhood youths . While […]

MET Life has Snoopy . . . now MedVision has Alfie (What’s It All About?)

June 5, 2010

Before anyone is mistakenly led to believe that Michael Caine (or Jude Law for the younger set) has become the spokesperson for Tampa-based MedVision, a medical consulting, healthcare planning, risk management, and wellness consulting firm for self-funded employer plan sponsors, neither are the Alfie’s to which I am referring. Alfie, as it turns out is […]

Washington Dispatch No. 7: Roundtable Discussion on Transparency and Technology

June 4, 2010

Ironically, given the huge investments made in procurement technologies during the past decade, usage of these systems remains markedly poor. Only 1 4% of the companies surveyed expressed confidence that 60% of spend was being channeled through eProcurement, the typical benchmark for applications of this nature; more than 60% placed eProcurement usage at less than […]