In our last post, we noted that State of Flux released their 2015 Global SRM Research Report: The Business of Supplier Relationships at the State of Flux Chicago and London Events. This report, which is their 7th annual research report that analyzes detailed survey data from over 500 global companies, provides deep input into the […]
Back in 2010, SI ran a post on how This is Scary! We Have To Fix This that referenced a MSNBC article on Why American Consumers Can’t Add that reported on a recent study that found: Only 2 in 5 Americans can pick out two items on a menu, add them, and calculate a tip, […]
Then the software isn’t worth using in the first place! When Pierre mentioned a YouTube video of a “first-person shooter” (FPS) game for SAP PO (Purchase Order) approvers to blow away those pesky POs in his recent piece on Gamification in Procurement [Looking Beyond the Technology] (Plus content on Spend Matters), I thought he was […]
The HBR blog has a lot of thought-provoking content, which is good, but also has a lot of philosophical content which, if misunderstood, or interpreted as more than a thought-experiment, could lead to very, very bad consequences. Take the recent post on The Degree is Doomed by Michael Stanton which ends with the value of […]
In Part I, we noted that today’s business leaders are operating in an era when forces such as technological change and the historic rebalancing of global economic activity from developed to emerging markets have made the problems increasingly complex, the tempo faster, the markets more volatile, and the stakes higher. As a result, there is […]