Art of Procurement

According to research undertaken by today's guest, Procurement Insights Founder Jon Hansen, 70% of an organization's digital transformation activity passes through the procurement and supply chain. Bu...

26 Aug 201943min

No one wants conflict for its own sake, but it can actually be an important factor in personal or organizational growth and decision making. Rather than shying away from conflict, especially in a prof...

19 Aug 201931min

It seems that we live in a service-centric world these days, and that includes a growing number of procurement spend categories. Although we've made headway in IT, legal and marketing, there is one ca...

12 Aug 201958min

The commonly-cited disconnect between procurement and finance all comes down to one central question: where did the money go? As hard as procurement works to negotiate and track different types of sav...

5 Aug 201936min

Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate a webinar last week with procurement consulting firm Efficio, titled Driving Greater Procurement Performance from Complex Direct Spend and Factory Indire...

29 Jul 201922min

What do childcare, ducks, and power have to do with negotiations? In today's episode, host Philip Ideson shares three negotiation tips taken from his experience as a procurement practitioner and entre...

22 Jul 201915min

As we enter the summer, I'm going to spend some time answering some of your most frequently asked questions. These pod's are going to be bite-sized, so I'd love to hear your feedback on whether you l...

15 Jul 201910min

If procurement is going to attract the 'best of the best' to join our ranks, no matter what their background, then at some point we can expect to work alongside someone with no experience in procureme...

8 Jul 201924min