the doctor is sure that by now you have certain (mega-)suite vendors whispering in your ear that you really need their full 1 Million+ (annual subscription) S2P solution to maximize efficiency and savings (and that the doctor was crazy*0 when he told you that you should be able to get a sufficient Source-to-Pay solution for […]
… the third mouse gets nothing — unless you count the opportunity to bury the first mouse in a shallow grave before he dies of starvation something. As Pete Loughlin reminds us in his recent post, “when conventional wisdom goes wrong”, most enterprises make one of two mistakes when selecting enterprise technology. Either they go […]
Cost Savings? Cost Avoidance? Value Generation? Just getting through the damned day? (It is the year of Procurement Damnation, after all.) It’s an important question. Why? Your success depends on your answer, because it is this answer, given or implied, that guides every sourcing, category management, and procurement project that you do. If you consider […]
Especially if they don’t have a degree in technology! Even if they have 30 years in the tech industry, because, at some fundamental level, they just don’t get it and ultimately end up making a suggestion that not only makes everything more complicated than it has to be but confuses the heck out of the […]
The Sourcing Innovation Resource Site, always immediately accessible from the link under the “Free Resources” section of the sidebar, continues to add new content on a weekly, and often daily, basis — and it will continue to do so. The following is a short selection of upcoming webinars and events that you might want to […]