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Gartner has thousands of analysts. Hackett has decades of benchmarking data. Spend Matters has deep vendor coverage. KPMG and Deloitte have global consulting armies. If organizational readiness is the missing variable in procurement te...
The conventional narrative about procurement technology failure goes like this: organizations keep buying the wrong platforms, chasing the latest innovation, and abandoning implementations before they deliver value. The technology is the variable. Procurement is the victim.
That narrati...
On February 2, 2011, the Procurement Insights sister archive (the Pi Window On Business) published a post with a question in its title:
“Like Vietnam which triggered the Six Day War, is the present day Mideast crisis an unintended consequence of U.S. policy regarding Iran?”
...This individual — whom I promised I would never name — gave me permission to share our discussion. What follows is that conversation, as close to verbatim as the coffee cup between us allowed.
CPO: Jon, I’ll be honest with you. Your documents create unwanted accountabi...