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Monday’s Musings: Putting An End To The Conflict Of Interest Among Some Sourcing Advisors

Monday’s Musings: Putting An End To The Conflict Of Interest Among Some Sourcing Advisors

By R "Ray" Wang on March 28, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, BPO, Business process, business process outsourcing, Conflict of Interest, contract negotiations, contract strategy, corruption, it Services, IT services firms, IT Strategy, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, procurement, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Sourcing, sourcing advisor, worst practices | 1 Response

A Case for eProcurement in Government Purchasing -- Denying Politicians Their Take!

A Case for eProcurement in Government Purchasing — Denying Politicians Their Take!

By Jason Busch on August 11, 2010

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…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BIDS, Chicago, construction, corruption, Illinois, India, procurement, Reverse auction, tender

Fixing Greece

Fixing Greece

By Sig Rinde on April 16, 2010

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…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bribery, brp, corruption, crisis, Current Affairs, enterprise software, Greece, Gross domestic product, Political corruption, Wall Street Journal | 1 Response

UN to Hide Procurement Fraud by Stopping the Search for it

UN to Hide Procurement Fraud by Stopping the Search for it

By Jason Busch on January 26, 2010

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…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged corruption, Fraud, government, procurement, Public Sector, UN, United Nations

Conference Spending Matters: Chicago Gets Dumped as a Convention City of Choice

Conference Spending Matters: Chicago Gets Dumped as a Convention City of Choice

By Jason Busch on December 16, 2009

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 …

Posted in Business | Tagged Chicago, corruption, Illinois, Politics, Spend Management, supply chain, trade unions, unions, United States

Is Supplier Management Key to Addressing Recent Ethical Lapses? (Part 1)

Is Supplier Management Key to Addressing Recent Ethical Lapses? (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on November 3, 2009

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’…

Posted in Business | Tagged corruption, ibm, Insider trading, McKinsey, SEC, supplier management

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