142: Is "Best-in-Class" Procurement a Fallacy?
It is Independence Day week here in the US, and so what I thought I would do today is to go back into the achieves and replay one of my solo shows that I recorded almost 18 months ago now. It is a to...
3 Heinä 201712min
140: Intergenerational Differences in Procurement: Beyond the Label, w/ Jim Baehr & Michael Urick
We have all read the blog posts and listened to the talking heads who inform us that Generation X believes this, and Millennials believe that. But are these generational labels actually true, or do we...
19 Kesä 201748min
139: A Procurement Leaders Guide to Spend Analysis (Part 1) w/ David Bush
Today on the pod I am joined by David Bush, formerly of IASTA and Determine, and now Chief Revenue Officer for spend analytics specialist SpendHQ. It has been a year since I first met David, and so hi...
12 Kesä 201745min
138: When Phil Met Woz: Nurturing Innovation from Within w/ Steve Wozniak
We are in for a treat this week on the show. I am joined by Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, the inventor of the personal computer, and a serial entrepreneur. Steve really needs no introducti...
5 Kesä 201718min
137: Finding Your Procurement Mojo: This Month in Procurement
This Month in Procurement returns, and this week Mark and I welcome a special guest, Sigi Osagie. Sigi is the charismatic author of the popular procurement book, Procurement Mojo, and a has an extensi...
29 Touko 201742min
136: How CPO's and Academia Combined to Set the Indirect Procurement Standard w/ Sime Curkovic
At the Art of Procurement, we get many press releases - usually detailing client wins, technology updates, or company acquisitions. However, there was one that came across my desk recently announcing...
22 Touko 201750min
135: The Art of Software Licensing and the Move to the Cloud w/ Randy Roth
There was a time, not long ago, when the only procurement professionals who bought software had responsibility for IT sourcing. Today, with the explosion of SaaS, and the use to SaaS technology to del...
15 Touko 201743min
134: How Google is Moving the Procurement Sphere of Influence w/ David Natoff & Bernd Huber
As a procurement leader, how do you balance the needs of your stakeholders with your responsibility to be guardians of third party spend? That is the challenge being addressed head on by today's guest...
8 Touko 201754min
