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Motivating Ideals: How to Engage and Ignite Your Company's Workforce

procureinsights wrote 11 hours ago: Taking another page out of Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, where he highlights a number of corporat … more →

Tags: News Updates, PI Window on Business (Show), Professional Development, Good To Great, Jim Collins, Motivating Ideals: How to Engage and Ignite Your Compan, PI Window on Business, rick dacri, Uncomplicating Management

Accessibility to Intelligence and the Power to Act (Binary Fountain)

procureinsights wrote 3 days ago:   When I was originally contacted by Binary Fountain (who is now a sponsor of the Procurement I … more →

Tags: Sponsor Profile, Bi, Binary Fountain, Business Intelligence, dashboard intelligence, dashboard technology, Small Women and Minority-owned suppliers

Accountability and Outcome is a Shared Responsibility in the RFP Process

procureinsights wrote 6 days ago: It never fails to amaze me that given the amount of research which goes into the production of each … more →

Tags: PI Window on Business (Show), Andy Akrouche, rfp, RFPBlaster, SRS

eSourcing 2.0 is Here! Upcoming Zycus Webcast Illustrates How Best Practices and Technology Leverages Web 2.0

procureinsights wrote 1 week ago: Strategic Sourcing, eSourcing, TCO modeling represent terminology with which we are all familiar.  S … more →

Tags: News Updates, Sponsor Presentations, eSourcing 2.0 webcast, Zycus

Redefining the RFP Process: SRS' RFPBlaster Heralds a New Breakthrough in SaaS Purchasing

procureinsights wrote 1 week ago: On my November 5th post titled “Exemption from the Competitive Process: Calculating the Costs … more →

Comment regarding recent Intel post worth noting

procureinsights wrote 2 weeks ago: I recently made the following comment in reference to my role and responsibilities as a writer; … more →

Tags: vendor rationalization, PG, Kraft, Intel, UNC's Coal Supply and Abbott's Bottles: When the Shoe i, Best Buy

Intel, UNC's Coal Supply and Abbott's Bottles: When the Shoe is on the Other Foot3 comments

procureinsights wrote 3 weeks ago: It was interesting in that as I was reading the story about Intel in which it is alleged that the co … more →

Tags: News Updates, vendor rationalization, PG, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Intel, Abbott Laboratories

Behind Yesterday's Press Release Regarding Anheuser-Busch InBev's Decision to Expand Their Utilization of Emptoris' Sourcing Solution

procureinsights wrote 3 weeks ago: A beverage company buys large quantities of aluminum, which it uses to manufacture cans to package i … more →

Tags: News Updates, Strategic Sourcing, emptoris, PI Window on Business, kevin potts, anheuser busch inbev, Tony Milikin, Sourcing, beverage industry

Exemption from the Competitive Process: Calculating the Costs of Convenience

procureinsights wrote 3 weeks ago: 5.3.9.1 Exemptions from the Competitive Process In certain unique circumstances, organizations will … more →

Tags: PI Window on Business (Show), public sector procurement, 5.3.9.1 Exemptions from the Competitive Process, Andy Akrouche, Department of National Defence, Exemptions from the Competitive Process, PI Window on Business, RFPBlaster, single sourcing

NASPO 2009 Survey - A Review of Preference Policies Requires Less Focus on Policy and More Focus on Preferences

procureinsights wrote 3 weeks ago: The use and breadth of preference policies seems to be increasing.  Twenty-seven states provide a le … more →

Tags: public sector procurement, rfp, The Godfather, Royal LePage, Buy American Policy, NASPO, NASPO 2009 Survey of State Government Purchasing Practi, Section 19: Preference Policies, reciprocal preferences

Just Released Gartner Research Papers Offer Promising Insights (If Only They Could Get Away from the Dogma of Antiquated Thinking in All Areas)

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: I just received a copy of the October 21st, 2009 Gartner Research Papers titled “Critical Capa … more →

Tags: News Updates, public sector procurement, Eva, Virginia, Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Best-of-Breed EProcurement Ve, Critical Capabilities for ERP-Based E-Procurement Solut, Q&A: The Top 21 Questions for Evaluating and Implem

Blog Talk Radio Founder Alan Levy Will be a Guest on the PI Window on Business on November 17th

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: Blog Talk Radio represents a renaissance of the old snap, crackle and pop medium of our collective p … more →

Tags: News Updates, Professional Development, PI Window on Business (Show), PI Window on Business, blog talk radio, Alan Levy, How McDonald's Real Estate Decisions Impacts Success on, Cinch, the Audio Twitter

Sourcing Tomorrow: The Bloggers Speak (Sourcing Innovation Special Series)

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: What is great about blogs is that they don’t just provide information but deliver meaningful i … more →

Tags: News Updates, Professional Development, Buy American, Matt Jacobson, Michael Lamoureux, Sourcing Innovation "Sourcing Tomorrow", How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?, Maine's Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Jacobso

Buy American Exemption: The Biggest 1% in Public Sector Procurement

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: Today’s PI Window on Business segment in which I had the opportunity to interview Washington-b … more →

Tags: News Updates, public sector procurement, PI Window on Business (Show), Government Contracting, Judy Bradt, Buy American exemption, www.sell2usgov.ca, NAFTA, 2009 stimulus bill

NASPO 2009 Survey of Purchasing Practices Provides an Interesting Lens Through which to View a Buy American Exemption

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: I just today received my copy of The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) 200 … more →

Tags: News Updates, public sector procurement, PI Window on Business (Show), Green purchasing, PI Window on Business, Judy Bradt, Matt Jacobson, NASPO, National Association of State Procurement Officials

IACCM Top Companies In Negotiation 2009 Report Now Available

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: IACCM recently asked its members to nominate the companies that they admire most for their negotiati … more →

Tags: News Updates, ford motor company, IACCM, Top Companies In Negotiation 2009, Toyota, Buy Side, Contract Negotiations, Quality Planning

PI Window on Business Segment to Address the FTC's Question "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?"

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) announces that it will … more →

Tags: News Updates, PI Window on Business (Show), PI Window on Business, FTC, Federal Trade Commission, Has Blogging Cross The Threshold of Legitimacy?, FTC's Question "How Will Journalism Survive the Interne, Blogging

Strategic Sourcing: Emerging Practices & Supplier Discovery and Visibility Groups Launched

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: Social networking has redefined how we interact and do business. Nowhere has this been more evident … more →

Tags: News Updates, Professional Development, PI Window on Business (Show), Strategic Sourcing, LinkedIn, Zycus, PI Window on Business, Strategic Sourcing: Emerging Practices, Supplier Discovery and Visibility

Seven Steps to Success: Jumpstart Government Contracts (A Buy American Perspective)

procureinsights wrote 1 month ago: When the details of a new Buy American deal on the Stimulus is announced for Canada, YES, it will ma … more →

Tags: News Updates, public sector procurement, PI Window on Business (Show), PI Window on Business, Buy American, Judy Bradt, Buy American exemption, doing business with the US Government


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