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Peter Smith of Spend Matters UK has written a pair of important articles over the past couple of weeks. One…
Philip IdesonJune 24, 2018
How loud should you toot your own horn? Loudly, according to Charles Dominick, founder of Next Level Purchasing Association. (this…
Philip IdesonJune 10, 2018
Palambridge, our on-demand, strategic procurement consulting offer, draws on the expertise of an ecosystem of about 1,000 pre-vetted Subject Matter…
Philip IdesonJune 3, 2018
Regular readers know two things about me: I publish an installment of This Week In Procurement (“TWIP”) every week and…
Philip IdesonMay 20, 2018
This week’s contribution to the procurement conversation is a bit of a head scratcher for me, if I am to…
Philip IdesonMay 4, 2018
My time at the SIGnature Session in San Francisco and JAGGAER REV2018 have given me plenty to think about. I…
Philip IdesonApril 27, 2018
I came across The Hackett Group’s recently published 2018 Procurement Key Issues Report this week, written by AOP and The…
Philip IdesonApril 21, 2018
If there’s one thing we can say for procurement, it is that we have a strong, closely-knit global community. This…
Philip IdesonApril 14, 2018
https://youtu.be/t1XFuz3kaMY The Economist is not just for business nerds; it is for us procurement nerds, too! Like fellow digitalist…
Philip IdesonApril 6, 2018
I spend a lot of time on Twitter. I set out to have a productive purpose (one can always hope!),…
Philip IdesonMarch 23, 2018
Happy Friday! Earlier in the month, Deloitte released the results of their 2018 CPO Survey. I always look forward to…
Philip IdesonMarch 16, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! We are in the middle of the spring conference season! This week I took advantage of…
Philip IdesonMarch 9, 2018
I recently read a book review by my Palambridge co-founder Kelly Barner that really caught my attention. The book in question was Expensive…
Philip IdesonMarch 2, 2018
As I write this week’s newsletter, I am en-route home from a productive ProcureCon Indirect East conference in Florida. One…
Philip IdesonFebruary 23, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmhZZMlrSk Last week I talked about the need to decompress, and the importance of our own…
Philip IdesonFebruary 16, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! It has been a week of birthdays in the Ideson household. Earlier in the week, our…
Philip IdesonFebruary 9, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! This week was a big week for the team at Art of Procurement. Over the past…
Philip IdesonFebruary 2, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! Innovation was a hot topic at the client workshop I participated in last week and, as…
Philip IdesonJanuary 27, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday, from the cold but vibrant Canadian city of Montreal, where I have been spending time with…
Philip IdesonJanuary 19, 2018
Dear Catalysts, Happy Friday! We were thrilled with your response to our newsletter last week. Thank you! Your feedback reinforces our…
Philip IdesonJanuary 12, 2018
Making Choices, Leaving a Mark, and Generating Fulfillment Much like red blood cells carry oxygen to all the other cells…
Philip IdesonJanuary 5, 2018
