Art of Procurement

After months of planning, weeks of preparation, and days of sleepless nights, Mastermind LIVE 2020 is officially in the books. We had set an extremely high bar for ourselves: to run the most unique an...

19 Okt 202017min

For many years, Peter Smith wanted to write a book that was fundamentally about procurement but would appeal to a wider business audience, One that would peel back the onion on the role of procurement...

12 Okt 202036min

Telecom has been on an interesting and unique journey as a spend category. Gone are the days when all that was needed to deliver significant savings was a professionally conducted third-party audit or...

5 Okt 202033min

AOP Host Philip Ideson starts each interview with a question about what brought that particular guest to procurement. With this week's guest, business consultant and coach Juergen Scherer, it might ha...

28 Sep 202046min

Although procurement professionals don't usually think of ourselves as making 'cold calls,' we do it all the time. If you've ever sat down with a stakeholder for the first time and immediately realize...

21 Sep 202020min

One year ago, all procurement could talk about was digital transformation. Enter the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of those plans were thrown overboard. We may not be doing what we expected to be worki...

14 Sep 202057min

Technology is an extremely broad spend category and it is expanding by the day because of our emphasis on digital transformation. Nearly every function and category has an IT software or services comp...

7 Sep 202035min

For the rest of August, I'm taking a roadtrip across the United States, and so because I'm out of the recording studio, I'm going to dip into the archive all the way back to 2016 to share some of my f...

31 Aug 202037min