March 14, 2020
This Week in Procurement – To Outsource or Not to Outsource
TOP STORY: Facility Maintenance & Outsourcing: To Broker or not to Broker There are two interesting things about this week’s…
March 7, 2020
This Week in Procurement: Filling the Talent Pipeline
TOP STORY: How Johnson & Johnson fills its procurement talent pipeline According to a 2019 Accenture survey, one third of…
February 29, 2020
This Week in Procurement: Shoestring Procurement Skills Development
TOP STORY: 10 Critical Skills Your Procurement Team Needs Right Now We all know that the work to increase procurement…
February 22, 2020
This Week in Procurement: Financial Statement Analysis for Procurement
TOP STORY: Spotting a Supplier’s Financial Distress Despite the recent emphasis on soft skills in procurement recruiting and talent development,…
February 15, 2020
This Week in Procurement: Multi-tier Supplier Risk Management
TOP STORY: Risk Management to the n-th Degree Just when you think you’re starting to make headway with supply chain…
August 17, 2018
TWIP: What Get’s Measured…
Alongside Jon Hansen (Procurement Insights) and Sheena Donaldson (CIPS) I participated as a panelist in a webinar yesterday: “Measuring for…
July 1, 2018
TWIP: GOOOAAAAL!!!! Or “Hand of God”?
Football (soccer) fan or not, it is hard to escape the fact that much of the world is caught up…
June 24, 2018
TWIP: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
Peter Smith of Spend Matters UK has written a pair of important articles over the past couple of weeks. One…
June 10, 2018
TWIP: Mirror, Mirror (#2)
How loud should you toot your own horn? Loudly, according to Charles Dominick, founder of Next Level Purchasing Association. (this…
June 3, 2018
TWIP: One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor
Palambridge, our on-demand, strategic procurement consulting offer, draws on the expertise of an ecosystem of about 1,000 pre-vetted Subject Matter…
