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Spend Matters 50/50: Why Good Things Come in Threes
May 25, 2016 | Taras Berezowsky
If you’ve pored over the trends behind the 50 Providers to Watch and 50 Providers to Know lists over the past three years — as we have in recent weeks — then you may be asking yourself some interesting questions. Here’s one that got us thinking.
An Analyst’s Report From KellyOCG Analyst Day
May 25, 2016 | Andrew Karpie
KellyOCG recently hosted around 10 industry analysts to hold briefings and discussions with key KellyOCG executives. This was the second such event in the U.S. and appears to represent a deliberate communications strategy to focus and educate analysts on this distinct business unit within Kelly Services Inc. Indeed, KellyOCG’s Senior Vice President and General Manager…
3 Reasons I Hate the Spend Matters 50/50
May 23, 2016 | Jason Busch
I’ve personally gotten a dozen notes or calls from people I know in the past few days asking “why weren’t we” on the Spend Matters 2016 50/50 “Watch” and “Know” lists. Some were polite. Others less so. I know that my colleagues have gotten similar lines of questioning as well. Inevitably, any list or ranking…
Spend Matters 2016 50/50 List — David and Goliath Fight Together, the Disappointment of Content Providers and the Rise of Managed Services
May 13, 2016 | Jason Busch
One reason we decided to create the Spend Matters 50 Providers to Know and 50 Providers to Watch was to call attention to specialized (and often small) procurement technology and services providers that procurement organizations should know about, but likely do not. Yet a strange thing happened in the past 12 months: Innovation was found…
Rob Bernshteyn on Oatmeal, Value and What’s to Come: Coupa Inspire 2016
May 11, 2016 | Jason Busch
Coupa CEO Rob Bernshteyn kicked off Inspire this year with a show of comic genius tying back to his personal mantra — which you can read in his new book — of “value as a service.” Using oatmeal as the focus of his opening tirade this year, he danced around the story of a failure…
5 Corporate Travel Trends For Procurement to Watch
March 29, 2016 | Kaitlyn McAvoy
Business travel is expected to increase this year, as are the costs associated with it. Here we have pointed to some of the factors impacting corporate travel in 2016, like consumer travel demands and annoying add-on fees, that procurement can look out for.
Check Out Jason Busch in Art of Procurement Podcast
March 24, 2016 | Kaitlyn McAvoy
Spend Matters’ Founder and Head of Strategy Jason Busch was recently featured on an Art of Procurement podcast, where he shared his insights on our recent Global Procurement Tech Summit put on in partnership earlier this month with the Institute for Supply Management. Art of Procurement host Philip Ideson was at the conference and interviewed…
Jason Busch Talks Supply Chain Finance Technology in The Secured Lender Magazine
February 29, 2016 | Kaitlyn McAvoy
Spend Matters’ own Jason Busch was featured in the latest edition of The Secured Lender magazine, discussing what he sees as the top trends in procurement and supply chain finance. From user adoption of e-invoicing to other solutions in the space, Jason shared his expert insights and predictions on how technology is impacting the supply…
The Shocking Confessions of a Procurement Industry Analyst
February 26, 2016 | Andrew Karpie
When I tell people that I am a services procurement and contingent workforce industry analyst, I usually get either a glazed look or a look that betrays a kind of sympathy or pity. That is usually the time — after a moment of uncomfortable silence — to turn the tables and ask what they do.…
Selecting Management Consultants For Procurement — Don’t Rely on ‘Quadrants’ Alone - [PRO Content]
February 18, 2016 | Jason Busch
Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory (now part of ALM Intelligence) recently came out with two separate “quadrant”-based rankings of procurement consulting firms. We believe that from a pragmatic selection standpoint, such approach to reports, even if they were carried out with the utmost diligence (something we would expect of Kennedy), result in the distillation of…
Procurement as a Service: The Time is at Hand
January 26, 2016 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Philip Ideson, founder of ProcureChange and host of the Art of Procurement podcast. Today’s procurement outsourcing model — characterized by long-term, multiprocess and largely fixed-cost engagements — will soon become redundant. It will be a repeat of the way in which today’s procurement outsourcing specialists diminished the need…
Spend Matters’ Andrew Karpie Speaks to Forbes on Transformation of the Workplace
December 3, 2015 | Kaitlyn McAvoy
Spend Matters’ own Andrew Karpie was recently interviewed for a Forbes Q&A article titled “The Workplace Will Be Radically Different By 2025, Are You Ready?” Published Nov. 30, Forbes contributor Elaine Pofeldt asked Andrew about the rise of online talent platforms and how they are changing the labor market and workplace by creating new ways…

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