Monday’s Musings: Putting An End To The Conflict Of Interest Among Some Sourcing Advisors
Many Services Firms Seek Unfair Advantages With Market Makers Service providers continue to battle it out in the über competitive market for large annual multi-million dollar contracts. Market makers who serve as sourcing advisors, (i.e. management consultants, analysts, or vendor specialists) often influence the outcome of large sourcing contracts and system integration projects. Consequently, more […]
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…
Fixing Greece
I’ve been chirping about how automating the flow part of workflows, by adding a proper IT based process framework to BRPs, would suggest a possible 67% increase in World Wide GDP. But I completely forgot an important issue; Corruption and…
UN to Hide Procurement Fraud by Stopping the Search for it
In the private sector, it’s difficult to justify procurement fraud in any way to shareholders (sometimes its enough to land the executives who
knew about it in jail). At the UN, however, procurement fraud is an almost
venerated tradition. After…
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 …
Is Supplier Management Key to Addressing Recent Ethical Lapses? (Part 1)
The recent allegations that the SEC and FBI have leveled against two former IBM and McKinsey executives have really made me think about the role that supplier management might have in addressing potential ethical lapses with suppliers and whether it’…
