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A.T. Kearney 2017 Global Services Location Index Spotlights Automation as Massive Job Displacer

On September 18, A.T. Kearney released its 2017 Global Services Location Index™ (GSLI), a study that analyzes and tracks the contours of the offshoring landscape in 55 countries across three major…

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Announcing the Launch of ProcureSearch!

Announcing the Launch of ProcureSearch! ProcureSearch is an open access hub that lists and updates key supply market intelligence resources. In 2014, Kelly Barner and I published Supply Market Intelligence for…

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Public Spend Forum Launches World’s Largest Library of Public Procurement Best Practices

Public Spend Forum Launches World’s Largest Library of Public Procurement Best Practices

Public Spend Forum has recently launched the beta version of their Best Practices Library that is available free (registration is required). Resources are authored and published by highly respected organizations, associations, and thought…

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A True Story of the Wild West and a Contract Gone Bad

A True Story of the Wild West and a Contract Gone Bad

This is probably not the worst example of a procurement initiative gone bad, but it just might be the most interesting. This true story takes place in Pioche, Nevada, a…

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New Resources Added to Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals Third Update

A third Update to the resources section (Part II, Chapters 8-31) of Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals: Research, Process, and Resources has been written: WAV_Update_Comp_February_2016. It is comprehensive in…

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OpenLandContracts.org Launches Database of Publicly Available Contracts for Land/Agriculture Projects

OpenLandContracts.org has just launched an online, searchable repository of publicly available contracts for large-scale land, agriculture, and forestry projects. Thomson Reuters Foundation reports: “OpenLandContracts.org, based at Columbia University in New…

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Should You Take the Time to Read Scholarly Journals?

Forbes contributor Christian Stadler wrote an important article in June 2015 entitled, “Should Managers Read Academic Articles,” that discusses the value of academic journals in the world of management and business. He uses Rita…

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IBISWorld: Procurement-Related Software Solutions Pricing Trends

IBISWorld’s Dale Schmidt has written an article that identifies and provides price trends for “a handful of different software products that can benefit procurement departments.” Here are highlights: Procurement Software –…

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