About five years ago, procurement outsourcing was all the rage. Companies would outsource sourcing and category management ‘en masse.’ It…
Philip IdesonFebruary 3, 2021
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There are many challenges for young procurement departments in rapidly growing companies who are trying to build and scale their…
Matthew HardinJanuary 10, 2019
For small business owners – and this includes me – your brand is your word. AOP has been my brand…
Philip IdesonJanuary 6, 2019
The end of 2018 marks 3.5 years since I decided to “risk it all” as they say, leaving the confines…
Philip IdesonDecember 28, 2018
I have never written an annual letter to the Art of Procurement community before, but there is no time like…
Philip IdesonDecember 27, 2018
There is no doubt that transformation is hard, especially at scale! It requires change across an entire team. Just one…
Philip IdesonNovember 27, 2018
I have spent a lot of time this summer thinking about the future of procurement. As part of our…
Philip IdesonSeptember 8, 2018
Alongside Jon Hansen (Procurement Insights) and Sheena Donaldson (CIPS) I participated as a panelist in a webinar yesterday: “Measuring for…
Philip IdesonAugust 17, 2018
Football (soccer) fan or not, it is hard to escape the fact that much of the world is caught up…
Philip IdesonJuly 1, 2018
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
