A funny thing happened on the way to writing Part 2 of the planned series on Supply Chain Finance . . . a debate broke out. Of course I would prefer a good debate any day over the monologue associated with a single discourse. It is in this spirit of conversational exchange, that I am… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
Note: The following is an excerpt from today’s post on the Rosslyn Analytics Blog. Use the following LINK to access the article in its entirety. If you can measure that of which you speak and can express it by a number, you know something of your subject; but if you cannot measure it, your knowledge… [Read more…]
February 23, 2011
As any blogger or social networking maven will tell you, comments from readers are sometimes far and few between depending on the topic being discussed. While I have certainly enjoyed the commentary feedback from as many as 50 plus people for a particular post or article – usually dealing with the lighter side of the… [Read more…]
February 23, 2011
In my February 17th post “Supply Chain Finance (Part 1): How do governments finance suppliers when their own credit worthiness is in question?,” I broached the concept of governments financing supplier involvement in the acquisition process as a means of addressing the steadily declining responses to public bids. It is not that outlandish an idea on… [Read more…]
February 22, 2011
This is due to the fact that vertically integrated supply chains are often inflexible in terms of responding to the diverse stakeholder dynamics that are reshaping the ways in which organizations buy and sell in the emerging global economy. In a 2002 article Forrester Research’s Navi Radjou linked the lack of flexibility to the inherent… [Read more…]
February 21, 2011
POST UPDATE (October 27th, 2011): Oracle’s Larry Ellison used to have nightmares about cloud-based SaaS Zombies. With the purchase of RightNow Technologies is he now one of them! Over the next few weeks we will be profiling leaders from the business world who have and continue to leave a indelible impression on the face of Corporate… [Read more…]
February 17, 2011
One of the first things the government seems to have accepted is that, at least in part, the answer to the problem of SME access to better channels of credit is going to have to come from somewhere other than just tapping the big banks as in the past. from the November 8th, 2010 article… [Read more…]
February 17, 2011
It isn’t often that you get the opportunity to be the proverbial fly on the wall in terms of having access to the hallowed boardrooms and back offices of industry giants such as SAP, Oracle and Ariba. But flies on the wall we were, when the PI Inquisitive Eye went undercover at an SAP board… [Read more…]
February 16, 2011
Despite technical difficulties both at the very start and end of the show, the meat of the interview sandwich as I would call it with Oakland Unified School District’s Michael Moore was very informative especially within the present day context of budgetary shortfalls at the State and municipal levels. Like Nassau County, whose finances… [Read more…]
February 15, 2011
“Adoption of the Coupa Cloud Spend Management Platform exploded in 2010 with monthly recurring revenue growing 156% year-over-year, placing Coupa among the fastest-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies.” Terms such as developer of category-disrupting cloud spend management (CSM) solutions, delivering a level of visibility and control over spending that never existed before through innovations such as consolidated… [Read more…]
Relational Outsourcing Seminar
February 25, 2011
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