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Webinar Notes: IASTA/Gartner Building Sourcing Credibility
This week I attended a webinar put on by IASTA and Gartner titled: Building Sourcing Credibility. The archived recording is available on IASTA's website here. My take aways and reactions are below....
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Green Purchasing and you
Being Green is a large movement in households as well as businesses. We are switching our light bulbs, recycling, shopping with reusable bags and buying local to reduce on the use of fossil fuels. Of...
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Software As A Service: Been to the Cloud?
I was in a presentation last week and they were talking about the advantages of their offering since it was "in the cloud". That is another way of saying Software as a Service (SaaS). It sounded...
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Back to Basics: Strategic Sourcing Success Factors
Whenever I see something that is titled "Back to Basics" I almost groan. That is like the latest secret to loosing 20 pounds. Here it is - Fewer calories in and more calories out. Really? Like diet and...
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Webinar Notes: 10 Ways To Drive Procurement Influence Using Advanced Technology
This week’s featured webinar was presented by IASTA, with speakers from Spend Matters and Cushman Wakefield (a global real estate and facilities management firm). Together they provided a fair balance...
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Blog Pick of the Week: IASTA regarding SAP and Ariba
Change takes time and yet it can also happen when you aren't looking. Another week goes by and before you know it, the change is now the norm. Well we are waiting and watching as the Ariba and SAP...
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Thank you, Merci, Danke, Gracias
Many cultures celebrate the harvest and offer thanks for a bountiful season. As the United States enjoys their Thanksgiving, we felt it was appropriate to thank those who walked along with us this year...
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Webinar Notes: Empowering the CPO Through Data
In this week’s webinar notes we’ll feature two webinars that addressed the idea of empowering CPOs through data or business intelligence: ISM with the Aberdeen Group and IASTA with Forrester Research....
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Are You Leveraging Your Myers-Briggs ‘Type’ for Maximum Success?
Many of us have taken the Myers-Briggs personality test, either in school or on the job. One of the core principles is that there are no bad personality types. Taking the test is supposed to help you...
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Webinar Notes: Leveraging Information to Develop Sound Risk Management...
This week’s webinar notes are from a November 7th event hosted by ISM and presented by IASTA and LexisNexis. The full details of the event can be seen on ISM’s site. Any company that has implemented a...
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Webinar Notes: Improving Supplier Risk Management in the Age of Big Data
“Risk management is not a purchasing initiative. It’s an initiative and philosophy that has to be embraced by the entire organization.” -- Rose Kelly-Falls Senior VP Supply Chain Risk, Rapid Ratings...
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Recycling is Simple
Do you remember life before yellow sticky notes? Maybe you are too young. In one of my prior organizations, our note paper was old company newsletters that were cut into note paper blocks. You only use...
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You can’t steer a parked car
Disney animation movies are classic and very entertaining. They have a very long success record. The recent CARS movies have followed suit. Lighting McQueen is the main character and is certainly...
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Doing the right thing in business
There was a factory fire about 20 years ago in the Boston area. The owner, Aaron Feuerstein, continued to pay the workers until the factory was rebuilt. That was exceptional and unheard of in business....
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Webinar Notes: Become a Procurement Change Agent
This week’s webinar notes are based on a May 13th webinar presented by IASTA and Efficio, their European consulting partner. The event was recorded, and the on demand version is available on...
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Getting started with an export business
I am sure many of you have heard the shoe salesman story which is classic in having a positive attitude and a determined spirit. Two shoe salesmen are in an undeveloped area. The first one calls home...
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Webinar Notes: We Don’t Need No Education, But We Do Need Contract Management
This week’s webinar notes are from an event run on September 3rd by Spend Matters EU/UK, Selectica, and IASTA. The event is available on demand here. Once you get this classic Pink Floyd tune stuck in...
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Guest Post on the Social Contracting Blog: Whole Foods Markets Shifts Their...
In March, I wrote a post for this blog about the Whole Foods grocery chain in which I asked the question: "How Much Can Procurement Change on Their Own?" I looked at how Whole Foods has defied the low...
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Guest Post on the Social Contracting Blog: Contract Management: Yours, Mine,...
In his recent book Global Supply Chain Ecosystems, Mark Millar wrote, "…today's supply chains encompass complex webs of interdependencies, frequently spanning the globe, designed and deployed to...
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