I saw an advance copy of the “Procurement 2020″ report last week..and it’s got some VERY interesting insights and provocative questions from industry leaders. One of the CPOs interviewed for the report is Roy Anderson, former MetLife CPO and current VP of Procurement Services at Metasys Technologies. Roy offered to speak with the Strategic Sourcing [...]

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This Thursday at 9am Pacific Time, I’m moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn group Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Group members know that I choose the topic every month based on feedback, ideas and volunteers from the members. So when Maureen Kelsey stepped up and offered to share some of her insights on ‘change [...]

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Last month, we kicked off the 2011 Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member conference calls with a lively discussion of Dashboards. What’s on them?, How did you decide what to measure?, How do you share them?, Where are they heading in the future?, and a host of other related topics made for a great [...]

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Let’s get 2011 off to a great start with our January Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call on Dashboards. The topic has come up often in the group. So it’s time to get our collective heads together and share Dashboard challenges, best practices, metrics and anything else that helps us quantify performance, success [...]

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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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