I was quite surprised to encounter this relatively prescriptive Spend Management-focused column on Forbes’ site earlier in the month. The topic you ask? Spend visibility, which represents a corner of the Spend Management world understood by few outside of the procurement community. In it, the author suggests that folks should take a look at analyzing spend “before it happens”. He further suggests that “this sort of pre-emptive penny-pinching is made possible through the tools provided by operational intelligence, a real-time form of information gathering that focuses on what is happening right now, not what happened yesterday”.
Now, I’d expect to read this type of thinking on these pages or perhaps an analyst report or trade publication article. But in Forbes?
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