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Welkom Spend Matters Netherlands!

Jason Busch - February 11, 2013 2:00 PM | Categories: Commentary

Today marks a significant milestone. With the expansion of the Spend Matters Network through the launch of Spend Matters Netherlands, we mark our first foray into delivering a local language website (though we suppose one could describe the sourcing and risk management strategies for effective metals buying as having their own unique dialect as well). But still, Dutch is Dutch. And English is English. And since the team in the US (and the UK) is using Google Translate to grasp many of the nuances of spendmatters.nl, it’s clear that we’re up to something entirely new here. We’ll be telling you [...]

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Pierre’s Plans: You Are Only As Good As Your Last Value Creation Activity

Pierre Mitchell - January 25, 2013 7:01 AM | Categories: Commentary

In procurement, as in many other functions, you are only as good as your last value creation activity, and stakeholders want to know what will be in the next act. As promised in my first blog post, here is what I have planned for my new tenure at Spend Matters: Provide daily blogging to provide insight (and maybe even entertainment) to both practitioners and providers Write research of varying formats. I look forward to writing much shorter and punchier research than my last employer, where I just wrapped up a report on SRM that was 60 pages (with 50 figures). [...]

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A Spend Matters Style Revival

Jason Busch - January 23, 2013 4:01 AM | Categories: Commentary

Something that’s changed quite a bit in the past few years as we’ve moved from a counter-culture blog covering procurement to the largest sector publication online (still a blog, mind you, but with a bit more of a grown-up corporate attitude) is that we somehow managed to engineer all the style and personality out of the blog, at least on a regular basis. The wit that Spend Matters was founded on has unfortunately become a bit…dare we say…soulless. With Pierre now on board, we’re committed to making sure that we revert to the individual voice that made Spend Matters what [...]

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