In our last two posts, we asked how relevant is the analyst firm and then answered that it’s not the analyst firm that’s relevant, but the senior analysts in its rank that are relevant. (And if the firm doesn’t have any in your Source-to-Pay/Supply Chain (related) area, it doesn’t matter how many employees it has, how many countries it is in, how many Billions or Trillions its customers spend, etc. because it won’t be able to help you get your message right, hit your market, or enhance your strategy.)
So, in their honour, here are forty analysts (even if they didn’t work for analyst firms and mainly did behind-the-scenes analyst work as a consultant/advisor) that the doctor has trusted and often referred inquiries to over the years, past and present, and (some of) their (former) areas of specialty:
Present (note that many [14/25] are independent and NOT with a big firm):
| Andrew Bartels | Back-Office Tech-Driven Business Transformation | Forrester |
| Andrew Karpie | CWM/VMS/HCS | Independent |
| Bertrand Maltaverne | Source-to-Contract | Spend Matters |
| Bob Derocher | SC/Procurement Process Transformation Digitization | Independent |
| Bob Ferrari | Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Digitization Strategy | Independent |
| Brian Sommer | ERP, HR, & Finance (Transformation) | Independent |
| Chris Sawchuk | Metric-Based Procurement Modernization Advisory | Hackett Group |
| Doug Smock | Supply Chain Evolution | Independent |
| Garry Mansell | Entrepreneurship and Business Growth in S2P and SC / Global Supply Chain Design and Management | Independent |
| Jason Busch | Broader Source-to-Pay Market Strategy | Spend Matters |
| Katie Evans | AI Ethics | Independent |
| Kelli Coviello | Business Growth, Diversity, Work/Life Balance | Independent |
| Lora Cecere | Supply Chain | Supply Chain Insights |
| Mickey North Rizza | Sourcing, Procurement, Commerce, SRM, Risk | IDC |
| Navroop Sahdev | Digital Economy | Digital Economist |
| Noha Tohamy | Logistics, Supply Chain Digitization, Analytics | Gartner |
| Patrick Connaughton | (Ecosystem) Enterprise Applications | Gartner |
| Pete Loughlin | Purchase to Pay / Procurement / Coupa & Ariba | Independent |
| Peter Smith | Best Practices, Sustainability, Procurement with Purpose | Independent |
| Phil Fersht | Emerging Technologies, Automation, Outsourcing, Global Business, and Horses | HFS Research |
| Pierre Mitchell | Procurement and Services Benchmarking & Transformation | Spend Matters |
| Robert Rudzki | Strategic Advisory and Procurement Transformation | Independent |
| Sigi Osagie | Business Growth through Personal and Team-Based Growth | Independent |
| Vinnie Mirchandani | Enterprise Applications and Outsourcing | Independent |
| Voitek Szewczyk | Strategic Sourcing, Procurement Transformation, Eastern Europe | Independent |
| Xavier Olivera | Procure-to-Pay/LATAM Market | Spend Matters |
Past ([semi-]retired, out of the analyst world, and/or working for a vendor; 4 independent):
| Charles Dominick | Procurement and Procurement Training | Independent |
| Debbie Wilson | ERP & Finance | Independent |
| Dick Locke | Operations, Strategic Sourcing, and International Trade | Independent |
| Doug Hudgeon | Back Office Integration & Modernization / Australasia Market | Managed Functions |
| Duncan Jones | Procurement | Independent |
| Gerraint John | Sourcing, Procurement, SRM, and Risk | Interos |
| Jon W. Hansen | Procurement | Independent |
| Magnus Bergfors | Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Procurement, SRM | Keelvar |
| Mark Perera | Procurement and SRM | Vizibl |
| Nick Heinzmann | Procurement, CLM, Sustainability, Fraud Risk, and Startups | Zip |
| Sudy Bhardadwaj | Direct Supply Chain, Source-to-Supply, Entrepreneurship | SAP |
| Tim Minahan | Procurement & Supply Chain, Business Performance Benchmarks, Best Practices | Citrix |
| Tony Poshek | Strategic Sourcing | Simfoni |
| Vance Checketts | Supply Chain, Operations | Built for Teams |
| Viktoria Sadlovska Anshu | Supply Chain, Trade Finance, Analytics | RepTrak Company |
| Vishal Patel | CLM and P2P | Ivalua |