PL’s Forum Chicago Dispatch 2: Harley Davidson Revs Up Supplier Management and Procurement Skills
Earlier this week, Procurement Leaders’ Chicago Forum managed to attract a panel of high-profile CPOs: Dr. Volker Pyrtek, CPO, Deutsche Telecom; Tim McBride, CPO, MSFT; Michelle Kumbier, VP and GM, Materials Management and Corporate Quality, Harley D…
Eye Tracking
I read the linked post below and the notion of eye tracking as a result of augmented reality products will result in a new advertising currency. The idea of eye tracking in advertising is not new, indeed eye tracking as a field of study is not new having first been credited to the work of [...]
A lesson CA could teach other vendors
CA knows a thing or two about governance – now they’ve got a book out on the subject. Even more interesting is how this publication serves to differentiate CA from other firms who speak of governance but can’t prove the depth of their competencies.
Charlotte Otter, Editor/Translator/Writer: On Jargon
Thomas Otter is a good friend of mine, but his wife is the talented one. Charlotte is a great writer, and has built a business in idiomatic translation of corporate information – particularly between English and German. In what looks like the first post on her new marketing blog Charlotte takes issue with jargon. Its [...]
Freemiums for SaaS
Time for my first Learnings post about my Helpstream Experience. Freemiums are a fascinating subject. Whole books have been written about the concept of extracting value from something that’s free. The FOS (Free Open Source) movement is all about free, and we benefited tremendously from it at Helpstream. Not one single software license fee was [...]
Did Toyota’s Lean Supply Chain Go Bad?
There’s been a lot of finger pointing in the press recently when it comes to Toyota?s suddenly accelerating escapades, which seemed to downshift into third gear with the accelerator floored (even to the point of a made-for-media car chase and forensi…
HRM SaaS InFullBloom vs Everything Else: The Musical!
Since my singing finale to last year’s closing keynote at the HR Technology Conference (if you missed it, you missed it because no YouTube versions have popped up – yet), many colleagues have asked me about my next such performance. And no, the picture (that’s me in the foreground) isn’t from HR Tech but rather from my long [...]
ICG Commerce’s 2009 Results Suggest Procurement BPO Growth
ICG Commerce, which sell-side analysts at Crag Hallum (an investment bank) suggest is a prime IPO candidate in the coming years, had a strong 2009, according to a recent company press release, adding further fuel to the public offering fire. In thei…
