Today marks an important milestone in Spend Matters’ relatively brief history. We’re launching our second Compass research series. We’ve designed Spend Matters Compass briefs to deliver high quality and insightful research at a level that goes deeper than Spend Matters, the blog, could ever do. It also forces us to stick to a yearly editorial calendar. Two different people who’ve already read the initial briefs from the first series on services procurement collectively nailed what we’re trying to do when they both said: “AMR quality, Aberdeen business model.”
I was tickled when I heard this quote — twice. It’s precisely what we’re trying to do with Spend Matters Compass. Candidly, I don’t think we’re at the AMR level yet; nor, for that matter, do I think AMR will be at the AMR level for many more years, if you know what I mean. By focusing on depth and objectivity and offering a sponsor-supported model that provides download lists to providers and gives them exposure on the cover and last pages of each analysis, we’re able to offer up a level of research that practitioners and consultants would have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for in annual subscription fees anywhere else.
The theme of Compass Series II is: Spend Visibility and Beyond — Analytics Broader Role in Procurement and Supply Chain. Based on this, you might have already guessed that the four-paper series is focused on spend visibility and analytics. In part, you’d be right. But we’re actually exploring a variety of topics…
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