The Strategic Sourceror recently ran my guest post entitled, “Supply Market Intelligence Trends [SMI] to Help Clear the Way.” In the post three SMI trends are identified that have the…
The Open Access/Knowledge Movement: Inspiration for Strategically Advancing Procurement
Procurement can use the spirit of the Open Access/Knowledge movement to serve as inspiration for strategically advancing its perceived value to the organization. It would serve procurement well to recognize…
Kelly Barner Writes About Our Unplugged Conversation with Blog Talk Radio's Jon Hansen
Kelly Barner has written a post on her Buyers Meeting Point blog, entitled An Unplugged Conversation with the Authors of Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals. I could not have…
Gerard Chick: Assessing the Situation – The 'Must Do' in Business Leadership
Gerard Chick FCIPS, writes an interesting review of Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals: Research, Process, and Resources that starts out with a beautifully written first sentence: “In a business…
Results from The Deloitte Global CPO Survey 2014
Deloitte’s fourth annual survey, entitled The Deloitte Global CPO Survey 2014, conducted in association with Odgers Berndston “reflects the views of 239 chief procurement officers and company directors from 25…
How Knowledge Management Ensures Supply Market Intelligence
An excerpt from our upcoming book, Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals: Research, Process, and Resources, was posted by my co-author Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point, and published in ThomasNet.com’s IMT…
March is National Supply Management Month
March is National Supply Management Month. As stated in the ISM-Nevada March 2014 BuyLiner Newsletter: “It’s a time to celebrate with pride the role of the procurement professional. When we…
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…
EY: CFOs Should Become Business Partners With Supply Chain Leaders
A new study by Ernst & Young entitled Partnering for Performance Part 1: The CFO and the Supply Chain, reports that CFOs, by developing partnerships with internal supply-chain leaders, can…
Aberdeen Report – Strategic Sourcing: The Future is Now
Aberdeen Group recently conducted a survey on strategic sourcing. Sharing company-level perspectives on strategic sourcing, results from 121 respondents are reported in a new study entitled, Strategic Sourcing: The Future…