Louis Columbus provides, on his blog A Passion for Research, an excellent roundup of cloud computing forecasts (summarized) from analyst and consulting firms Gartner, McKinsey & Company, IDC, Informatica, KPMG,…
A Realistic Picture of the IT Labor Market
In a recent Staffing Stream post, Krista Palmisano, lead research analyst, labor market analytics, for Allegis Group Services, shares an interesting infographic that illustrates the challenging sourcing conditions for IT…
The Everything Store Wins Business Book Award
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone, has been named the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. The award “recognizes the book…
Leveraging Information to Develop Sound Risk Management Strategies
On November 7, IASTA and LexisNexis presented a timely webinar, hosted by ISM, that gave sound advice on how to effectively use and implement Supply Market Intelligence (SMI) to develop…
IHS and Procurement Executives Group Introduce Engineering and Construction Cost Index (ECCI)
Global information provider IHS and the Procurement Executives Group (PEG) have teamed up to create the Engineering and Construction Cost Index (ECCI). The Procurement Executives Group is a forum and…
Various Survey Statistics: Workers Spend Too Much Time Searching for Information
Information overload is not going away. A recent IHS Knowledge Collections Webinar provided an interesting statistic by Outsell: an engineer’s time spent searching for information has increased 13% since 2002.…
Three Current Cultural Movements and How They May Affect Procurement
Next Level Purchasing’s Charles Dominick writes about three interesting cultural movements that are “driving tomorrow’s procurement trends.” Here they are: Supplier Pre-Payment. Following the crowdfunding trend, “supplier pre-payment has been…