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Synchronization Versus Compression Should Guide Government Procurement Policy (200th POST)
Government is never boring. On one hand you have the Government of Canada who despite earlier hopes has once again reverted to muscling a shared services platform down the unwilling throats of stakeholders, the majority of whom oppose the current direction. A move which is ironically being introduced at the expense of the very business […]
The JLARC Review: The Phantom Echoes of Discontent? (Part 1)
April 17, 2009
“. . . Because we are not reviewing whether eVA is successful or not, but rather how it impacts one group of users and potential users, the questions do not focus so much on the elements of success that are addressed in Yes Virginia! But try to get at small business impact” e-mail from Chief […]
SWaM: A Transformation in Mindset from an Adjunct Undertaking to an Economic Necessity (Report on Virginia Forum 2008)
December 3, 2008
“On August 10, 2006 Governor Timothy Kaine signed Executive Order No. 33 (2006) focusing on enhancing business opportunities for small, women-and-minority-owned (“SwaM”) businesses. It shall be the goal of the Commonwealth that 40% of its purchases be made from small businesses. This includes discretionary spending in prime contracts and subscontracts. The Department of Minority Business […]
GUEST POST: Six Week Fall Speaking Tour Concludes On A Strong Note (Jennifer Cameron, President, Hansen Consulting and Seminars Inc.)
November 25, 2008
Virginia Forum 2008 Report After six weeks and three continents, Jon Hansen’s Fall Speaking Tour concluded on a strong note at the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Forum 2008 Conference in Hampton, VA. Sharing the keynote spotlight with world renowned motivational speaker Julio Melara, who himself has toured with the likes of Zig Ziglar, Steven Forbes and […]
(NEW WHITE PAPER) Yes Virginia! A Profile In Excellence
October 19, 2008
Who Can Benefit from this Paper? This thought provoking white paper is an essential resource tool for public sector organizations that are already in the midst of an established program, or ones who are contemplating a change. Although they do not operate within the same framework of a public or government entity, private sector companies can also […]
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 2) Revisited
June 19, 2008
In the year since this segment was first published, I have written a number of follow-up articles that have focused on testing the metal if you will of my position that the majority of supplier development and management programs are inherently flawed. What is the old adage about the unexamined life? Everything, including what I […]
Virginia is Ranked Number 1 in 2008 PEW Center Report
March 4, 2008
In yet another example of the value of collaboration over compliance the Commonwealth of Virginia was ranked alongside the States of Washington and Utah as a top performer in the PEW Center’s Grading the States 2008 report. According to the PEW organization’s web site the report, which is designed to assess the “quality of management […]
Strong Reader Response to While We Were Sleeping Post or (Playing Hide-and-Seek with Chuck Henry and Steven Poole)
March 1, 2008
Response to yesterday’s post regarding the role that associations are playing in undermining their own efforts to effect positive and sustainable change in Government of Canada procurement policy is quite telling. Distributed widely through a variety of channels, readers were in some cases “passionate” in their comments. One such example came from an industry veteran who […]
Procurement Insights 
April 22, 2009
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