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Summer School: NLP offers a “Masters” certification in global purchasing

July 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments · LCCS and trade, design and development, skills rectruitment and development

Next Level Purchasing officially unveiled their new SPSM2 purchasing certification today (after several weeks of Charles Dominick teasing twitter followers about an upcoming major announcement). Designed as a follow up to SPSM Certification, the new coursework focuses on “processes that are becoming more significant in the purchasing field - international procurement, advanced negotiation, and managerial [...]

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Chad Buchanan: Achieving “Sustainability of Cost Savings” (Video)

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments · AribaLIVE, best practices, design and development, sourcing, supply management

Last week at the Ariba LIVE World Tour event in San Francisco, Chad Buchanan, current COO and VP at Premikati and former VP of procurement at Axcess Financial, shared his thoughts on where organizations go wrong in their efforts to sustain cost savings. In Chad’s view, the key is a focus on change management AND [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Effective CPOs

March 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · best practices, design and development, events, skills rectruitment and development, supplier management

As my wise colleague Pat Furey recently wrote, “career fortunes are made during a recession.” As companies tighten their belts in the face of shrinking top-line revenues, they’ll look to procurement to drive bottom line savings. So do you have the performance record, skillset and credentials to move up the ladder when the economy rebounds [...]

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Can SaaS Make CIOs Strategic Again?

January 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · On Demand/SaaS, best practices, design and development

My visits with business executives and media mavens over the past few weeks involved heated discussions about the future role of the Chief Information Officer in this age of Software as a Service (SaaS). Public perception is that SaaS is in direct competition with the CIO, chipping away at the death grip this top IT [...]

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Sharing Best Practices, Questions & Opportunities

December 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · best practices, contract management, design and development, sourcing, supplier management

Jason Busch recently penned a post on the use of Web 2.0 tools in procurement and lamented the absence of a killer app that has become an indispensable site professionals use on a daily basis (although he did tease us with a possible solution in early 2009). Point taken. After all, even the “bright spots” [...]

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