When I ask CIOs to describe wireless cost management within their business, their responses inevitably vary somewhere between “a challenge” and “a nightmare.” There’s a long list of reasons why companies overpay for wireless – ranging from carrier pricing disparity to the general lack of visibility into how wireless is being consumed across the business. But, that’s just half of the mobility spend management challenge. What about the spend management discipline required to identify and implement the mobile applications and initiatives that will increase productivity or boost revenues?
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Sourcing Validation as a Best Practice
Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jeff Muscarella of NPI, a spend management consultancy focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping. In […]
Tackling Tail Spend and Spot Buys (Part 2)
Hackett suggests that the largest opportunities for improving process effectiveness for spot, tactical and tail spend buying focus on four areas: complexity and compliance, supplier […]
Tackling Tail Spend and Spot Buys (Part 1)
Spot buys and tail spend represent a large and potentially untapped opportunity for savings for moderately mature procurement organizations that have already invested in other […]
Achieving Savings in the Temporary Staffing Category
Spend Matters welcomes a guest post by Anshu Vazirani of GEP. The temporary labor market trend follows the economy’s growth and recession cycle very faithfully. […]
Procurement Inertia: When Did You Last Run Through the Seven Steps?
Don’t wait for the consultants to come in and kick you past your inertia. If you stay vigilant by revisiting your spend on a regular […]
4 Reasons Why Your SMAC Initiatives May Underperform
Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jon Winsett of NPI, a spend management consultancy focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping. Virtually […]
Coupa Inspire: Release Updates and Product Goodies (Part 1)
In the broader req-to-pay space, Coupa has been an effective “fast follower” when it comes to what my colleague Pierre Mitchell likes to describe as […]
Why You Should Be Cautious About Oracle’s Consistent Pricing
Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jeff Muscarella of NPI, a spend management consultancy, focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping. Oracle […]
Three Words to Remember: Price. Isn’t. Everything.
Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jeff Muscarella of NPI, a spend management consultancy focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping. “Price […]
Transformation Promises of P2P Systems and Fad Diets
Spend Matters welcomes a guest post from Mark Schaffner of Verian. Beware fad diets and P2P systems that promise total transformation by following a painless […]
New Category Management Approaches to IT Spending (Part 3)
In preparing procurement and IT sourcing organizations for a new type of category management focused on more effectively enabling and managing a prime supplier tasked […]