Tag: Business

I know Brian Farrington Ltd (BFL) and Dr. Brian Farrington as we set a partnership together a couple of years ago, to combine the best of Eutilia and BFL. …

I found this press release dated from the 8th of January and about Alibaba on Digital Media Asia. Here is an excerpt: Alibaba, an e-commerce company in China, has …

I’m regularly browsing for Ariba news, in blogs, at Ariba website. Bottom line, Ariba is the market leader for spend management solutions and the best sensor to get more …

7 ‘cool-quotes’ extracted from the Harvard Business Review (August 2002) about “How do you boost an organization creative potential?”. Reading them Ithough they applied quite well to Sourcing and …

In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, …

Browsing my RSS feeds about Sourcing, Procurement and Technology with my preferred Netvibes Tab, I went through a post of Jason Busch about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) which, I …

Alf Noto is vice-president indirect sourcing at Nokia. He wrote a  great article  about  5 major differences between indirect/direct procurement . You can read it at  European Leaders Network. …

Every year The Gartner is releasing “Hype Cycle” reports for different trendy IT models. With regard to SaaS, the Gartner has issued its report “Hype Cycle for Software as …

Last time, I’ve explained in the post SSOA Part II/IV how to define which strategy and tactic to apply per SG. The third and next step is to define …

As you can see I love Top 10’s… I was busy identifying leading providers covering the ‘spending analysis’ automation process when I found this nice report from the Aberdeen …