Hopefully you were able to attend the December Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call with Kate Vitasek last month. We had a lively discussion centered around the paper she co-wrote - “Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “ (download here). Nobel Laureate Dr Oliver Williamson’s work dug into the incentives [...]

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Tomorrow I’m moderating the October LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month’s topic is ‘Nuisance Spend’ - that low volume, high SKU count spend that can be the most difficult to bring under management.
As always, we’ll be encouraging participation - questions, insights and discussion - from the audience. These calls are [...]

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This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in New York, Gartner’s Dennis Gaughan shared their firms insights into b2b commerce trends, including ‘the cloud’, working capital management and collaboration.

We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange or our YouTube channel [...]

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Through the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group on LinkedIn, we had an open conference call for members to come together and collaborate on KPIs. It provided a great opportunity for people to ask and answer questions with their peers about this extremely important topic.
The replay is now available for anyone to listen to (it’s the [...]

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On a recent call to discuss top trends in 2010, Chris Sawchuk of the Hackett Group said that procurement departments in many companies are looking to beef up their talent this year. It seems that the value of strategic-minded, savvy procurement pros became more clear during this brutal recession, where extracting value for every penny [...]

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