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Philip IdesonApril 20, 2021
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Everyone in a leadership position today is in the process of getting their organization up to speed after a year…
Philip IdesonApril 20, 2021
Everything we do at Art of Procurement is based on our own philosophy about what procurement can and should be.…
Kelly BarnerApril 7, 2021
Do you sign up for virtual events with the very best of intentions - and even block huge windows of…
Philip IdesonMarch 26, 2021
One of my favorite things to talk about is how we can inspire each other with the ‘art of the…
Philip IdesonMarch 15, 2021
Sustainability is a value lever we've been talking about for a long time as procurement professionals, and it is becoming…
Philip IdesonMarch 10, 2021
Governance and compliance have always presented a challenge for procurement - not because we can’t establish and enforce them, but…
Kelly BarnerMarch 3, 2021
At AOP Mastermind LIVE in October, we asked CPOs about their top objectives heading into 2021. The number two objective…
Philip IdesonFebruary 17, 2021
One of the questions we frequently get is: How do I make sure the value that procurement provides to the…
Kelly BarnerFebruary 10, 2021
About five years ago, procurement outsourcing was all the rage. Companies would outsource sourcing and category management ‘en masse.’ It…
Philip IdesonFebruary 3, 2021
Congratulations! Your company has embraced the value of formal procurement enough to invest in it. Now that we’ve basked in…
Kelly BarnerJanuary 27, 2021
We did some research as part of the Mastermind LIVE event we held back in October. We asked all of…
Philip IdesonJanuary 20, 2021
We’ve all had so much to deal with over the last year. In most cases, people just refer to ‘the…
Kelly BarnerJanuary 13, 2021
Anyone that has ever sourced professional services knows that one of the top concerns is having a firm bid –…
Philip IdesonJanuary 6, 2021
For all the stories of stress and struggle we heard in 2020, there have also been some amazing examples of…
Philip IdesonDecember 7, 2020
A couple of months ago on the pod we chatted with Arthur Piszczor, a Consultant at Corcentric, about the changes…
Philip IdesonSeptember 23, 2020
The idea of automating professional activities is nothing new. You only need to look at marketing over the last 10…
Philip IdesonSeptember 16, 2020
If you expect your strategic suppliers to have a business continuity plan, doesn’t it make sense for procurement to have…
Philip IdesonSeptember 9, 2020
As much of the world takes tentative steps to return to some type of normality in the shadow of COVID-19,…
Philip IdesonJune 8, 2020
Earlier in my career, I was heavily involved in outsourcing and offshoring, including leading a procurement shared services center in…
Philip IdesonMay 24, 2020
The ‘word on the street’ about how procurement should respond to COVID-19 product and service supply problems is that going…
Philip IdesonMay 11, 2020
Whether your company is in growth mode, protecting what they have on hand, or adapting to a new normal, responsible…
Philip IdesonApril 6, 2020
