September 24, 2023
Benchmarking Services Procurement
“Services are relationship-based from a procurement perspective, whether that means the relationship procurement needs to have with the business to…
September 14, 2023
The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics
The term “cold chain” was first used in 1908 to describe meat industry storage and transportation in and out of…
September 7, 2023
Nerves of U.S. Steel
“You can’t unscramble eggs.” – J.P. Morgan U.S. Steel was formed in 1901 when J.P. Morgan financed the merger of…
August 31, 2023
Dodging the Urban Doom Loop
In the book “Good to Great,” Jim Collins wrote about the flywheel effect, a prosperous cycle of work and adjustment…
August 27, 2023
[Pod] Elevating the ROI of Business Travel
“The largest corporations that spend the most on business travel are generally at about 75% of their 2019 spend, and…
August 24, 2023
Who is to blame for Yellow’s demise?
On July 30th, 2023, Yellow announced that they would cease operations after 99 years and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy just…
August 17, 2023
Restoring Business Imagination Through Nature
“For men like Ford, Firestone, and Edison, whose success in the world had given them access to any thing they…
August 13, 2023
[Pod] The Care and Feeding of the Procurement Startup Ecosystem
Looking at any of the digital procurement ‘spider charts’ suggests that procurement is an incubator for a vast array of…
August 10, 2023
The Problem with Performative ESG
Although we talk about ESG programs all the time, they actually haven’t been with us for very long. ESG initiatives…
August 3, 2023
Tesla Takes the Socialist Pledge
China is one of the most influential consumer, industrial, and raw materials markets in the world. Unfortunately, they are also…
