By Jason Busch on November 10, 2016
Our European readers are likely looking at the news out of the U.S. this morning and feeling shocked in the same way they felt following the Brexit vote. Granted, both elections were equally as close. (Clinton appears to have won the popular vote in the U.S., although the Electoral College makes the election look more […]
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By Jason Busch on September 3, 2015
Supplier networks today will be very different from those of tomorrow. In the future, supplier networks will form the basis of not just transactional buyer and supplier connectivity, but more. In the recently publishing Accenture whitepaper, Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One, the authors suggest the elements […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 24, 2015
New Ai Ki Dō Service Offerings Provide A High Potential Path To Growth For Clients On August 20th, 2015, Infosys announced a set of new service offerings to help organizations jump start growth. Organized into three areas and named Ai Ki Dō, the approach addresses design driven initiatives, knowledge based IT, and platforms. Here’s […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 24, 2015
Oracle Marketing Cloud Customers Will Gain Channel Agnostic Customer Experience A/B Testing Solution Oracle announced the August 20th, 2015, agreement to acquire Maxymiser, a multivariate and A/B testing solution used to improve customer experience. Here’s the quick video analysis of the deal (see Figure 1). (A blog post may follow given time constraints) Figure […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 11, 2015
Infor Moves Towards A Cloud Network Economy With Acquisition Of GT Nexus.
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By Jason Busch on June 4, 2015
There’s often a mistaken viewpoint that says labor costs form the dominant and often hard to address costs of healthcare service delivery in the United States (for example, the physicians, nurses, administrative staff). Granted, labor costs are a significant and core component of healthcare. But so are capital expenditures as well as overall procurement. Free […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 31, 2015
Subscribed15 Brings Together The Market Leaders and Fast Followers Of Digital Transformation Over 2,000 attendees convened May 20th – 21st, 2015 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco for the 5th annual Subscribed Conference. The early adopters in the subscription economy and those seeking to build for a post-sale, on-demand, attention economy were […]
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By Jason Busch on May 28, 2015
We’re in the process of wrapping a joint Spend Matters/ISM snap poll exploring the relationship between finance and procurement, and more specifically, how to get more out of it on a pragmatic level (no one needs another study that just talks about the roots of “misalignment”). As part of the research, we asked participants why […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 9, 2015
SuiteWorld Comes Of Disruptive Age Over 7,500 attendees convened at the San Jose McEnery Convention center for the 5th annual NetSuite SuiteWorld. The four day event brought together customers, partners, and influencers among the ecosystem. As one of the original cloud pioneers, the appropriate event theme focused on the impact of disruption. Taking its […]
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When Watson Meets Procurement – IBM Uses Big Data to Tackle Big Supply Challenges
By Jason Busch on June 5, 2015
One of the presentations at Coupa Inspire this week that I was particularly inspired by did not come from Coupa at all, but from Michael O’Leary, director of procurement offerings and strategy at IBM Commerce. Michael is a former procurement and supply chain executive within IBM. If you are interested in the Cliff Notes version of […]
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