Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recover Meet? (Part 3)
In the first two posts in this series looking at the recently announced relationship between Basware and Lavante (Part 1 and Part 2), I provided context behind the partnership announcement, including a 30,000 foot fly-by of the audit recovery market and how Lavante has introduced a solution originally designed to automate and improve upon traditional [...]
In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: Istanbul To Venice — Field Report Part II
Regent Seven Seas Mariner Underway The first part of this post was a personal report on our recent travels. In this second part, I want to share what I learned about our industry’s “best” practices along the way. More specifically, I want to describe some of the HRM practices that Regent Seven Seas uses to [...]
Back of the Napkin — A New Series and an Open Invitation
I’d like to invite all Spend Matters readers to participate in a new series we’ll post every Friday on Spend Matters titled “Back of the Napkin”. The goal is to bring a bit of visual substance, learning and, cough, humor to the world we inhabit. Each week, we’ll post a new sketch or chart — [...]
Can We Make A Sustainability-BPM Connection?
Peter Graf, SAP’s Chief Sustainabilty Officer, and Scott Bolick, VP Sustainability, spoke to a group of bloggers and analysts at a sustainability roundtable today. Graf started with SAP’s definition of sustainability: increase short and long-term profitability by holistically managing economic, social and environmental risks and opportunities. Sustainability changes business processes drastically, especially those processes that [...]
HR Tech: Chicago.
image via OzinOH, thanks! I’m looking forward to this event. Most of the events I go to are single vendor events, but this one is different. It is the event that brings most of the HR technology community together. Bill runs an excellent show. I’ll get to see Jason, Steve , Phil and Naomi, and [...]
D&B Morphs and Grows Its Overall Supply Management and Risk Strategy (Part 3)
In the first two posts in this series (click here for Part 1 and Part 2), I covered the history and context behind D&B’s Supplier Risk Management toolset. This solution set includes supply risk content, predictive analytics and an underlying technology platform for monitoring the supplier lifecycle. In this post, I’ll provide details on the [...]
Spend Matters, Live From ISM on Wednesday: Supply Risk Management Solution Analysis Session (Part 1)
This Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT at ISM, I’ll be co-presenting with Sherry Gordon, a Spend Matters contributor and president of the Value Chain Group. Our session is titled “Understanding and Choosing Supply Risk Solutions: Software, Content and Analytics.” The two of us spent quite a bit of time analyzing the supply risk solution landscape [...]
More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: KSAOC-Centric Strategic HRM
Figure 1: KSAOC-Centric, Strategic HRM One of the great debates in HR circles is over what is strategic and what is merely administrative with respect to human resource management (HRM) processes. That which is strategic, often referred to as talent management, is considered worthy of executive attention, academic research, attendance at expensive conferences, and the writing [...]
Product Update: PeopleSoft 9.1 Talent Management
I’ve pulled the original post while discussions are underway with Oracle to address their specific concerns about its completeness, correctness and factual basis. (Cross-posted @ In Full Bloom)
Rolling out a Supplier Performance Management Program ? Key Process Steps (Part 2)
In this second post in the series on key process steps for supplier performance management (SPM), we?ll turn our attention primarily to monitoring and administering a program once it’s up and running. As a reminder to those who may have missed the fi…
