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Innovating IT Risk Management

Innovating IT Risk Management

By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 7, 2013

A sad truth in our industry is CIOs don’t often get fired for not being innovative. But they do get fired for major data or security breach or business continuity failure. In spite of that it is a bit concerning how IT risks keep exploding. Here are some: There is growing acceptance that most commercially […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Anti-virus, backup, InformationWeek, IT risk management, Risk management, security

Research: Spotlight on social media risk management

Research: Spotlight on social media risk management

By Michael Krigsman on August 20, 2012

A new report by Altimeter Group sheds light on the importance of risk management as applied to social media.

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Altimeter Group, Business, Financial services, Insurance, Management, Marketing and Advertising, Risk management, Social Media | 1 Response

Simulation drama: 'Why IT projects fail'

Simulation drama: ‘Why IT projects fail’

By Michael Krigsman on September 19, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged failure, Risk management, skype

Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT

Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT

By Michael Coté on August 28, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Consumer, consumer IT, corporate it, dropbox, EI, Evernote, Facebook, gmail, IT, Risk management

What is Supply Chain Risk Management, Exactly? Stepping Back to Address the Challenge

What is Supply Chain Risk Management, Exactly? Stepping Back to Address the Challenge

By Jason Busch on July 13, 2011

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged Risk management, spend analysis, supply chain management | 1 Response

Segmenting the Supply Chain Risk Management Market -- Vendor Categories/Types (Part 1)

Segmenting the Supply Chain Risk Management Market — Vendor Categories/Types (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on June 13, 2011

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…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Risk management, Supply Chain Risk Management

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Tips to Support Supply Chain Risk Management Platform Success + Building the Business Case

By Jason Busch on June 7, 2011

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged Manufacturing, Risk management, spend analysis, supply chain, Supply Chain Risk Management

New Compass Research: The Future of Spend Visibility and Analytics -- Three Scenarios For Adoption

New Compass Research: The Future of Spend Visibility and Analytics — Three Scenarios For Adoption

By Jason Busch on February 10, 2011

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 …

Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, performance management, procurement, research, Risk management, spend analysis, supply chain

SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a Vote of Support (Part 2)

SAP Ventures Backs Lavante: Despite Hiccups, the Supplier Management Gets a Vote of Support (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on December 21, 2010

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…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Enterprise resource planning, erp, Lavante, Risk management, sap, SAP Ventures, supplier diversity

Supplierforce Enters Voluntary Liquidation -- Background and Implications

Supplierforce Enters Voluntary Liquidation — Background and Implications

By Jason Busch on November 30, 2010

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…

Posted in Business | Tagged Aravo Solutions, Ariba, Contract Management, Liquidation, Risk management, SupplierForce

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