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A Typical Day In The Life Of A Procurement Professional (1-Minute Video)
January 10, 2025
What is the biggest challenge you face as a procurement professional on a daily basis?
When Someone Tells You GenAI Is Beautiful And Magically Fixes Everything
December 10, 2024
Why shouldn't you poke the "Procurement Professional" bear!
What is a “TRUE” procurement professional?
August 8, 2024
How would you describe the perfect procurement professional?
If you left procurement, what profession would you choose to work in?
May 2, 2018
As a follow-up to my post regarding a survey which found that if they had to do it over again 50 percent of procurement pros would have gone into another profession, I wanted to find out what profession they would choose? Based on my initial research it appears that a fair number of former procurement […]
What’s the worst that can happen to a procurement professional? by Jon Hansen
March 11, 2015
“During a speech at a Florida resort to a very stressed out group of executives, one of the managers died of a heart attack in his chair without anyone noticing. When the person next to him noticed, he screamed at the top of his lungs which made the rest of those around him scream. Needless […]
Future Purchasing Category Management Survey: Is Category Management Important? by Jon Hansen
May 2, 2014
When I was recently invited to check out the new Category Management Survey from Future Purchasing, I was immediately reminded of an October 2012 Procurement Leaders article by Paul Teague titled “Why category management is important.” While it is a relatively short and concise read, it packs an interestingly powerful punch. Specifically, and despite being […]
The Ides of March for procurement experts? by Jon Hansen
March 21, 2014
Back in October of last year I wrote a post titled “It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . at least for traditional analyst firms and bloggers,” in which I talked about the reasons why the days of the traditional industry experts were numbered. What was interesting is that very […]
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Saturday Sidebar: “The Monkey Could Do My Job” – A 27-Year Pattern
October 11, 2025
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Is AI really a threat to procurement jobs, or is it more of a transformation readiness problem?