Spend Analysis Learnings From Oil and Gas — No Surprises, Some Good Lessons
A few years back, I spoke at an OFS Portal event about the evolution of the procurement function. OFS Portal is a type of procurement user group/community within the oil and gas sector that also provides additional services in the…
U.S. Job Growth Continues; I Have New Worries
World Oil Demand, Source: IEA The U.S. economy is back on track. The Labor Department released March numbers that included adding 216,000 jobs beating the forecast of 193,000 jobs and reducing the unemployment rate to 8.8% from February’s 8.9% level. We all want greater declines but that doesn’t happen over night. Having shown job growth [...]
HP’s shrinking wallflower attitude may not be Sustainable!
So I wrote a post the other day entitled Have HP’s senior executives lost interest in Sustainability? after attending a HP event in San Francisco. It was a little unfair because I concentrated on the lack of mentions of Sustainability by senior management on the first day of the event while leaving out the fact [...]
