The Enterprise Irregulars and Defrag
(We don’t typically publish guest posts here, as this blog is meant to be a selected aggregation of our Members’s writing. But I am making the exception now, fully quoting Eric Norlin’s post – you’ll see why.) I’ve long been a fan of the Enterprise Irregulars – and if you aren’t, you should be. The [...]
Retiring Ecto
I have used Ecto to write my blog posts for almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog. I just like having an offline editor to write with and doing so gives me the added benefit of having an offline archive of everything I have published, plus Ecto handles images really well and like [...]
Research Report: Next Gen B2B and B2C E-Commerce Priorities Reflect Macro Level Trends
Recessionary Forces Challenge Organizations To Not Only Right Channel, But Also Personalize Organizations with e-commerce initiatives face a flurry of competitive forces that challenge existing assumptions put in place a decade ago. On the operational efficiency front, organizations must battle reduced product margins, shorter product life cycles, greater pricing transparency, and increased friction in multi-channel [...]
Labor Day — Layoffs and beyond: Will Sourcing Labor Get Cheaper?
Like most Spend Matters readers in the United States, I’m taking off to spend the day with my family, holding our last official summer barbecue. But that hasn’t stopped me from thinking more closely about a subject that’s been on …
Thoughts On The Dell Streak: I like the form factor. But then I don’t wear skinny jeans.
Folks have been clambering over themselves to praise the new 7 inch Samsung Tab after its launch at IFA last week, but I have been playing with Dell’s 5 inch screen entry in the tablet game for a month already, so I thought I should get a few notes down for context. Pros Display – [...]
The Great BPMN Debate of 2010
I go off on vacation for a week, and a firestorm erupts around BPMN usage by business people. It’s taken me the weekend to comb through all the posts and comments; there’s a lot of reading here, and I recommend checking out the discussions in the comments on each of these posts as well as [...]
SaaS Vendor Selection/Implementation Tips: Avoid Having the Cloud Pulled Over Your Eyes (Part 1)
This column is jointly authored by Spend Matters’ Jason Busch and Deloitte’s Brian Umbenhauer. Brian is a Principal at Deloitte, with extensive procurement and supply chain experience in a combination of strategy, operations and t…
(Mobile) Labo(u)r Day!
I have written before that US immigration policy is dated – we focus on country based quotas, family reunification, lotteries, and there is way too much angst about the social cost of Mexican migrant labor. We have lost sight of an increasingly mobile global workforce which does not necessarily want to immigrate but wants to [...]
