American Express: the Fight for the Local Deals Market Heats Up
A bit of news you might have missed last week, considering all of the high profile (and very sad) headlines out there, was a partner / program announcement from American Express. I’ve watched the battle for “local” rage on for the last couple of years with location based apps, review sites, local deals and more [...]
Software Atomization
The first best of breed software that we helped to replace was Cullinet’s A/P system. It was 15 years ago, a number hard to believe even as I type it. The company was a Fortune 500 goliath with an enormous IT department. Their goal was to eliminate a slew of legacy applications in favor of [...]
Connecting Digital Strategy with Social Business and Next-Gen Mobility
How do the overarching digital strategies of today’s 21st century enterprise relate to social business and smart mobility? It’s a question I’ve been asked more and more frequently as these two major new trends become primary areas of focus in organizations around the world. The reality is today that large organizations continue to struggle with [...]
Social Business SaaS Applications
A couple of years ago while analyzing the ways SaaS business applications could evolve we started thinking about the social web’s impact on business processes. At the time, Facebook’s success was accelerating while Twitter and Zynga were emerging. We know that consumer-oriented companies want to engage their customers and prospects in the places they frequent, [...]
Worse Than Drugs, Booze, Nicotine — Why Can’t Procurement Shake the Excel Addiction? (Part 1)
We all have our vices here in the Spend Matters office. Sheena will barely say hello before she’s ingested at least two cups of coffee. I personally drink (daily) more green tea than probably a small town in Japan does. And the wh…
