On the tenth day of X-Mas
my blogger gave to me
blog posts worth keeping,
spend vendors lancing,
thoughts for a shilling,
strategies for winning,
tactics for saving,
five golden rings,
four little words,
tri-focal lens,
two boxing gloves,
and a lesson in strategy.
10 Sourcing Innovation Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Spend Matters Not
- What makes an innovative company?
- CombineNet IV: BoB’s Unique Talents
- Global Trade Data Management
- Sometimes Good Advice for IT is Good Advice for Sourcing
- The Talent Series VI: The Impending Crunch
- Lack of Visibility Kills
- Innovation Matters
- There’s No Such Thing as Spend Intelligence
- Is Low Cost Country Sourcing to China Really Innovative?
10 Spend Matters Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Optimization Should Drive Complex Direct Materials Decisions
- Building Global Sourcing Skills and Talent in Your Organization
- The Spend Management Platform
- The Top Ten Myths of Analyst Relations
- Hitting the Spend Management Wall — and Getting Over It
- The Spend Management Talent Game (Part 1)
- Integration: The New, New Thing
- Sourcing Innovation: Securitizing Direct Materials
- Global Sourcing: Does Innovation Matter?
- On-Demand: The Next Generation
10 eSourcing Forum Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Reverse Auction Selection Criteria 101
- Spend Analysis: MacroMap and MicroMap
- Build it and they will come
- Sustaining and Growing e-Sourcing Success
- Most Favored Nations – Part II
- “Change” does not equal “Refresh”
- The Future of Sourcing?
- The Three Deadly Myths of SPM
- Dave Stephens on Procurement, Open Source, and Doing What You Love
- Aberdeen Responds to E-Sourcing Forum
10 Supply Excellence Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- If Opportunity Doesn’t Knock, Build Your Own Door
- Your Company is Being Acquired. Now What?
- Top Supply Strategy #5: Getting Organized
- Top Supply Strategy #4: Grabbing the Supplier Performance Ring
- Top Supply Strategy #3: Sourcing Grows Up
- Top Supply Strategy #2: A Compliance Tale
- Top Supply Strategy #1: A Spend Intelligence Short Story
- The Perfect Pitch In Action
- Predicting the Future of Strategic Sourcing: Part II
- Sourcing Innovation: Prediction for Future of Strategic Sourcing
10 Procurement Central Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Use “Use Cases” to Evaluate Procurement Software
- Performance Based Pay – Thoughts from a Silicon Valley guy
- The Future of Sourcing
- So Your Supplier Has Been Acquired, What Next?
- The Problem with Procuring Open Source
- Hiring the Best
- Software Patent Pirates
- The Other Side Of On-Demand & SaaS
- Indirect Procurement Risk Factors
- Supplier Onboarding Costs
10 Purchase Realm Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Top 7 Things I Learned About Buying Software
- 4 Sites for Creative and Quirky Purchasing
- Supply Chain Vulnerability
- Procurement Succession Planning
- When Should Suppliers Get Involved
- Managing Global Sourcing
- How To Become A Buyer
- Purchasing Case Studies
- Smarter Purchasing Equals More Profit
- Top 7 Signs Your New Co-Worker is a Purchasing Dud
10 Vendor Management Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Measuring the performance of a procurement department
- Rogers and Hammerstein: The Future of Sourcing
- Your most valuable asset
- Blue Ocean Strategy and The Tawny Scrawny Lion
- Are your vendors the Spice Girls or Arcadia?
- Quick and dirty financial model: Efficient RFT processes v. contract management: Part 1
- Outsourcing contracts: Not all fairness is equal
- Trust, service delivery and contract management
- Are we focusing too much on procurement?
- Cult Contract Management
10 Purchasing Certification Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- CPO’s & The Talent Search
- Purchasing Education & Being Open-Minded
- Skills For Purchasing Positions
- Qualities of a Successful Buyer
- Procurement Benchmarking
- Talent Management
- Sourcing Innovation For Enterprise-Wide Contracts
- Sourcing Innovation for Single-Customer Contracts
- Government Procurement Ethics & The Slammer
- A Common Buyer Training Omission
10 European Leaders Network Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- The Future of Work
- Spend Analysis: One Company’s Story
- What’s Your Problem? Top Hurdles to Supply Management Success
- Success Factors for Professional Purchasing
- Procurement Benchmarking – Where do you start?
- Taking Advantage of the Global Service Delivery Model
- Procurement Outsourcing – Where Next?
- Strategic Purchasing – Overused and Undervalued
- Why e-Sourcing is Good for Suppliers
- Low-cost countries sourcing trends
10 CombineNet Blog Posts Worth Keeping
- Optimization Enabled Performance Management
- Finance’s Contribution to Sourcing Optimization
- Remove Uncertainty from Spend Management
- Configuration vs Customization
- Media Planning – Optimized
- The Make vs. Buy Dilemma
- Perspectives in Puzzling
- Project Zander and Comprehensive Network Design
- Analytics Support Negotiations
- Expressive Commerce and The Long Tail