When we started this series to expose Procurement Trends back in October, we noted that most Supply Management ‘futurists‘ were still stuck in the past, and if we were lucky, it was the recent past (as some of them are feeding us trends that are literally thousands of years old as these trends have been […]
Only one anti-trend remains. Once we finish this post, we complete our formidable burden, and hope that the sour taste in our mouths will soon depart now that we have shown those fictionally-focussed futurists in fine detail that the snake-oil trends they have been selling have no worth. We want to abash them for their […]
Just two very trying anti-trends remain. We’re one post away from fearlessly finishing our formidable burden, but the sour taste in our mouths still remains as we must continue to provide those factually-challenged futurists with counter-examples to the trends of their forerunners who saw this coming a decade ago. (Check the very early SI archives […]
Three annoying anti-trends remain. We’re so close to the end that we can almost taste the bitter-sweet victory, but the sour taste in our mouths still remains as we must continue to provide those fashionably-challenged futurists with counter-examples to the trends of their fore-fathers that no one who didn’t lock themselves in a windowless padded […]
Four anti-trends remain. We can count them on one-hand’s worth of fingers, but like LOLCat, we feel more compelled to provide examples of how far beyond retro the futurists really are when they provide us examples of trends that anyone who bothered to poke their head over their cubicle wall thirty years ago (or outside […]