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Rearden Commerce: A Spend Management Blue Ocean
In the software world, true, commercially-viable innovation is rare. You can count on one hand the few companies every year that introduce a tremendous new […]
A Spend Management "Vegetation" Solution …
I gave a speech yesterday to a group of sixty procurement, supply chain, and operations executives at a conference put on by the American Gas […]
Spend Management Family Values
With apologies to John Bruggeman, whose new blog highlights Silicon Valley narcissism and conspicuous consumption at its best (heck, why not), I'm attempting to raise […]
Stanford Study Supports Reverse Auction Usage
In the past few years, there's been a few curmudgeons in the academic community who have attempted to refute the value of reverse auctions. But […]
Procurement Outsourcing Coverage Heats Up
Might 2006 be the year that procurement outsourcing crosses the chasm? According to a recent study by the Everest Research Institute, the outsourcing of indirect […]
Unilever Pursues Multiple Procurement Outsourcing Options
I just came across this announcement from NewlineNoosh (IMHO someone needs some branding help) noting the firm's work at Unilever North America. According to announcement, […]
Aberdeen's LCCS Coverage Hits the Mark
Over the past 12 months, I've found Aberdeen's research on low cost country sourcing to be invaluable. With the cost of their research an order […]
Deep Thoughts on Collaborative Sourcing
Right as my two year old son decided to throw his blueberry fruit shake at the wall this morning, I came across this little piece […]
Don't Count Frictionless Commerce Out
As you can problem gather from reading this blog, I spend too much time in the Spend Management world. The irony is that my day […]
A Supply Chain Genius Chimes In …
I enjoyed reading Corey Billington's just released whitepaper, The New CPO: Shifting the Opportunity Continuum to Create Real Business value. For those who don't know […]
A Spend Management Fireside Chat (Part 1) …
I'm excited to post the first installment of what promises to be an ongoing and fun series of discussions with Pierre Mitchell. Pierre, an old […]
A Spend Management Fireside Chat (Part 2) …
I'm excited to post the second installment of what will continue to be an ongoing and fun series of discussions with Pierre Mitchell. Pierre, an […]
A New Rumor: Open Ratings and D&B
The rumor this morning China-time is that D&B has picked up Open Ratings. While there's not a press release out yet, I've gotten a few […]
The AMR Take: Open Ratings and D&B
Yesterday, Mark Hillman sent me over his take on the D&B / Open Ratings deal which AMR is now offering as a free read as […]