Simulation drama: ‘Why IT projects fail’
As we all know, almost all IT implementation failures suffer from unreconciled points of view, confusion, politics, and unclear definitions of success. No wonder these situations are difficult to manage and control successfully. To shed light on the inner workings of IT failure, particularly the dynamics among stakeholders with conflicting goals and agendas, the IT [...]
Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT
In moving to a BigCo job you quickly notice how different life behind the firewall is when it comes to IT. You’re often more limited than empowered. The advances in consumer IT (things like Facebook and GMail) often have created better IT than corporations provide their employees. For well over a decade, corporate IT has [...]
What is Supply Chain Risk Management, Exactly? Stepping Back to Address the Challenge
As usual, Paul Teague recently penned an insightful column on his weekly blog Procurement Leaders, this time covering supplier/supply chain risk management. In it, he tosses out what might seem like a soft question, but is not: “W…
Segmenting the Supply Chain Risk Management Market — Vendor Categories/Types (Part 1)
We’ve spent a lot of time in the past year — in our Compass research and on the blog itself — examining different providers of supply risk, supplier performance, and supplier information management solutions. But what is the sim…
Tips to Support Supply Chain Risk Management Platform Success + Building the Business Case
Over the past couple of weeks, you’ve most likely noticed a number of posts from my presentation with Sherry Gordon at ISM, focusing on the risk track. In it, we shared what we believe is some of the most important and condensed a…
New Compass Research: The Future of Spend Visibility and Analytics — Three Scenarios For Adoption
In my first real job out of graduate school, I spent much of my day analyzing structured and unstructured information to come up with potential scenarios for companies, industries and markets. The firm I worked for specialized in …
SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a Vote of Support (Part 2)
Last week, Lavante raised a new $8 million funding round in an effort led by SAP Ventures (as background on Lavante and the funding round, please read our initial coverage of the news). We think the SAP Ventures connection is intr…
Supplierforce Enters Voluntary Liquidation — Background and Implications
Supplierforce, a Dublin-based supplier information management provider, has entered voluntary liquidation. You can read past coverage of Supplierforce on Spend Matters here, here, here and here (it should also be noted in full dis…
D&B Goes Mobile With New Smartphone-Optimized Supply Risk Capability (Part 2)
In the first post in this series looking at D&B’s recent smartphone-optimized browser capabilities, I provided an overview of D&B’s new Supply Risk Management Mobile module. I’ll continue by offering a quick analysis of some of th…
Is SAP E-Sourcing (or now just "Sourcing") Still Competitive? (Part 2)
In the first installment of this post (which has already lead to a healthy debate in the comments section), I examined a number of the sourcing enhancements, customer milestones and related news surrounding the fall launch of SAP’…
