053: Three Steps to Make Procurement Less Boring!
How can we make procurement less boring? That is the question I recently posed based on the perception that we hear that procurement is a boring profession. As you can imagine, it led to a lively de...
13 Touko 201615min
052: How Real Time & Predictive Analytics Will Fuel the Future of Procurement, with Dr. Robert Handfield
I was fortunate to the be in the audience recently to listen to today's guest, Dr Robert Handfield, give a talk on the future of procurement analytics, and the impact that access to real-time and pred...
10 Touko 201645min
051: 5 from 50 - 5 Lessons from the First 50 Episodes of the Art of Procurement
Time has flown by - we have now passed a half century of shows! I have learned a TON from the thought leaders who have graciously shared their time with us to help us all collectively elevate the rol...
6 Touko 201618min
050: Crack the Code to the Successful Procurement of Legal Services, with Silvia Hodges Silverstein
The legal category of spend is often the final frontier in terms of procurement engagement. It is too complex, too nuanced and isn't understood by anyone from outside the legal space. When we do get...
3 Touko 201639min
049: How Can a Strategic Governance Program Elevate the Role of Procurement?
Ugh, governance I hear you say! When we think of procurement governance, we think of it as a way to control our end users - as something to measure compliance against. However, it doesn't have to be...
29 Huhti 201620min
048: Influence Your Stakeholders - The Marketing Way, with Anna Spady
I strongly feel that we can learn as much from people who are outside procurement as inside procurement, and that is definitely the case in today's show. My guest today is Anna Spady, the Marketing Ma...
26 Huhti 201642min
047: Big Idea Week - That's a Wrap!
After a flurry of activity over the past couple of weeks – with the site redesign and then the Big Idea Week series, it is nice to get back into a normal routine this week! And in fact, I don't intend...
22 Huhti 20168min
046: Big Idea Week - How Can the Power of Collaboration Solve our Greatest Supply Chain Sustainability Challenges?, with Martin Chilcott
This week is Big Idea Week on the Art of Procurement - a mini series of shorter interviews with procurement thought leaders ahead of their participation in the Procurious Big Idea Summit. Today, I wel...
19 Huhti 201627min
