Industry Week recently published “10 Best Practices for Software Selection” from Software Advice that were pretty good. In brief, they were: Take Ownership of Selection ProcessDon’t delegate to a subordinate or IT. It’s your process that you’re trying to automate and improve, so make sure you get the software that you need. Determine Your NeedsKnow […]
At the end of Part 2, we noted that the major problems Procurement folk are having that are causing many to proclaim that Procurement is too complex have been solved for over a decade (and, in fact, there are old grey beards that successfully solved them two decades ago with the right systems, integrations, configurations, […]
In part I, we noted that most sourcing cycles are the same, and they all generally consist of the following eight steps: Spend Analysis Project Selection Strategy Development Supplier Identification Bid Collection Bid Analysis and Supplier Selection(s) Contract Negotiation and Award Post-Award Contract Management We then noted that at a high level, we know what […]
To demonstrate how, to date, they have all been completely useless, with some to the point of being actually harmful, but now that the gauntlet has been cast, he expects the next version of at least one of these maps to only be mostly useless (and maybe even only moderately useless) and mostly harmless. It’s […]
In Part 1, we introduced you to Tonkean, an enterprise applications provider founded in 2015 to transform the enterprise back office. Tonkean leverages smart technology to bring people, process, and technology together in a manner that revolutionizes how businesses operate, allowing people to focus on high value work that gets results, and not redundant data […]