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Beroe and Tealbook Announce Partnership

Beroe and Tealbook Announce Partnership

Beroe and Tealbook have announced a new partnership that combines Tealbook’s supplier data foundation with Beroe’s procurement and supply chain intelligence. Beroe will integrate Tealbook’s supplier foundation with its AI-powered…

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Slack’s Future Forum Launches Remote Employee Experience Index

Slack’s Future Forum Launches Remote Employee Experience Index

Slack is launching the Future Forum consortium, which will help companies make the transformations necessary to thrive in the new economy. “The Future Forum is dedicated to the concept that…

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Microsoft’s First Work Trend Index Report Explores Work from Home Changing Habits during COVID-19

Microsoft’s First Work Trend Index Report Explores Work from Home Changing Habits during COVID-19

Microsoft has released the first report based on data from their new Work Trend Index. The Index explores how people who are now working apart are learning to connect as…

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LevelTen Energy is Thriving Riding the Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement Growth Wave

According to the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, 2019 set another record for corporate renewable energy agreements. There is one company in particular that is innovating to allow for corporate procurement…

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Recent Private and Public Sector Efforts Moving Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Initiatives Forward

Have you heard of blockchain fatigue? This is when continued efforts to implement blockchain technology have not hit traction. Gartner has predicted that by 2023, 90 percent of blockchain-based supply…

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Explore Transformation with the Multidimensional ISG Digital Cube

Early this summer technology research and advisory firm, ISG, introduced the ISG Digital Cube, a virtual, interactive model of enterprise capabilities organizations must have for digital transformation. The ISG Digital…

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Cottrill Research’s Open Access Research Provider List Of Honor 2018

In recognition of Open Access Week, which was last week (Oct. 22 – 28), Cottrill Research, for the second year in a row, is honoring research resource providers that make…

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Using Supply Market Intelligence to Enhance Innovation – Update to Resources List!

Updated section below in orange text. Originally Published on February 5, 2017.   Summary: Procurement can support organization-wide innovation development by incorporating patent landscape analysis and startup company data into…

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Embracing the Intelligence-Forward Mindset

LexisNexis recently posted an article I wrote for its Biz Blog, entitled Step One for Supply Market Intelligence Success: Embracing the Intelligence-Forward Mindset. Here is the introductory paragraph: Supply market…

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Revised: Facing the Reality About Supply Market Intelligence

In 2014, I addressed the issue of how to tackle a supply market intelligence (SMI) initiative when you (and other procurement professionals) are stressed for time and dealing with a…

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