I would say that you approach them with caution You should not let them overwhelm you with cheer Pays to know what you’ll find To understand their kind ’round here Drawing their lines, they look so radical Tracking their curves I get so lacrimal Something deep down reveals they’re tragical I think I’ve had enough […]
As we ended off in Part 1, nothing about the Procurement process is complex, because, as we said, the foundations of Procurement and Purchasing haven’t changed since the first manual was published 137 years ago, its just that more steps were added and, more importantly, the introduction of bad Procurement systems that took a simple, […]
Good for you! As we noted in part 1, admitting you might be a dumb company is the most important thing to do on the yellow brick road to enlightenment. So what do you do next? In short you continue to: admit to every mistake you are making and do something about it, look for […]
Preamble: As the doctor wrote on Spend Matters back in November of 2021, shortly after SpendKey‘s initial release, SpendKey was formed in 2020 by a senior team of Procurement and Spend Analysis professionals with experience at big consultancies (Deloitte, E&Y, etc.), big companies (Thomas Cook, Marks and Spencer, etc. ), big banks and Finance Institutions […]
Last week the one and only Dr. Tony Bridger, one of the world’s leading spend gurus, said that the correct term for “walking dead companies” is Zombie companies, and I had to correct him. Historically, a person was walking dead when they had received a mortal wound, infection, poison, or radiation dose and it was […]