The Point
Buyers Meeting Point attends many sales AND procurement webinars/webcasts. One of the interesting things about consistently reading content from quality sources is that you start to notice trends. It is amazing how often the same topics arise at the same time in different places. We use this blog as a way to help you stay on top of the major themes in procurement and supply chain management.
Event Notes: ISM nabs ADR – Tipping the Scales of Change in their Favor
This week’s featured event looked at ISM’s recent acquisition of ADR North America. Jon Hansen, host of the PI Window on Business Blog Talk Radio program and writer of the Procurement Insights blog interviewed Bill Michels, President of ADR North America and ADR-ISM China, and Senior Vice President at the Institute for Supply Management. If three hats is not enough, he is also the author of ‘The Sourcing Guy’ blog.
You can listen to the entire interview on demand.
Jon Hansen's Remote Keynote Speech at eWorld 2011
Maybe it is the dynamic speaking skills demanded by the internet radio format Jon Hansen knows so well from his PI Window on Business program, but his remote keynote speech at eWorld makes the case that being physically present is no longer necessary to contribute to a conference. (Besides, who doesn’t speak more eloquently when given the opportunity to secretly present in bunny slippers?) The content is the critical component to any speech, and ‘The Changing (or Changed) Face of Procurement’ does not disappoint.
Innovation Through Procurement Contests: Requirements v. Specifications (Part 2)
This post is a follow up to 'Innovation Through Procurement Contests' (Part 1), my thoughts on Procurement Insights’ 3 part (so far) series on contests in public procurement. I’ve had a chance to think about the idea a little more and as far as I’m concerned, if it allows the buying organization to put the right solutions in place, then it is a benefit. As I commented in my previous post, the concern becomes for the procurement professional whose role becomes one of administration rather than strategy and negotiation. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, I had started down the road towards what would become a sticking point for some of the collaboration-style projects often resulting from new solution development: intellectual property rights.
Innovation Through Procurement Contests (Part 1)
This week's Wiki-Wednesday topic is Innovation, and you can click here to read an excerpt or to link back to the Wikipedia article. We chose this topic because of a series of posts being done this week by BMP mentor Jon Hansen on his blog Procurement Insights. He is addressing a growing debate over the benefits of using procurement contests - particularly in public procurement - to innovate without absorbing the direct costs of a major R&D investment.