Terrorism and the Supply Chain — Strategies for Coping With a Form of Supply Risk We Can’t Ignore
Late last week, my hometown of Chicago was once again in the news (and no, this time it was not because we’re sending yet another former politician to jail). Rather my city (and in fact, my neighborhood) was the target of an inten…
A Case for eProcurement in Government Purchasing — Denying Politicians Their Take!
My own state of Illinois has banned the use of reverse auctions in the telecom and construction industries because of the good-old-boy supplier system of graft and corruption. Incidentally, if you want to read a hilarious spoof pi…
A mad, rad day for HR technology and outsourcing
Anyone in the HR industry knows the best show of the year – and always the most entertaining – is the HR Technology conference in Chicago each September. And this year’s effort promises to be the best so far.
Another Form of Supply Risk — Organized Labor is More Out of Touch Than Ever
A visitor to our office earlier this week brought up his outsider view of Chicago as a city where organized labor was decimating the conference business. $444 per hour union forklift drivers will do that to you, I suppose. His observation was correct, however, given the recent flight of conferences from the city due to [...]
Conference Spending Matters: Chicago Gets Dumped as a Convention City of Choice
If I were to practice what I preach here on Spend Matters, I should
have probably packed up my bags and left Chicago — not to mention
Illinois — a long time ago. After all, this is the epicenter of
middle-corrupt-spending-America, a place …
