Answer: Sometimes people are just jerks

Some of the questions were easy: What was one of my early hobbies? Rowing – I went to one of the only public schools in Massachusetts (at the time anyway) that had a crew team, and so I walked straight into the Varsity boat in college. Fun fact: I rowed the Head of the Charles 4 times. Where did I go to school? Clark University (B.A. English and History), Simmons College (M.S. Library and Informat...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Buyers Meeting Point on 09 July 2019

The June ISM-New York Report on Business: Not Since 2009

Report Rundown In June, New York City purchasing managers reported 10-year lows in both the Six-Month Outlook and Quantity of Purchases. Current Business Conditions made a slight recovery of 1.4 points to 50.0 (the breakeven point) from the more than 2-year low of 48.6 reported in May. The Six-Month Outlook fell to the lowest level reported since May of 2009 (50.7), coming in at 51.0 in Jun...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Procurement on 02 July 2019

Momentum and Sustainability Create Impact: How Marketing and Procurement Can Deliver Business Growth (Part 2)

Corporate America is School for Adults First, a trip down memory lane: school. Picture one classroom, where the academic fundamentals were learned, students became familiar with their environment, and an understanding of educational expectations were developed. After mastering this level, multiple classrooms were introduced, with various classmates, subjects, and group projects ...

By Kaitlyn Krigbaum

Posted in Guest Posts on 06 June 2019

Momentum and Sustainability Create Impact: How Marketing and Procurement Can Deliver Business Growth (Part 1)

Compartmentalized departments with differing visions We have all heard the advice before: procurement must align with marketing to understand their needs and requirements. One would hope this advice to be a simple and easily implementable solution. However, historically the real-life scenario looked more like this: the creatives in marketing viewed procurement as pedantic, regimented p...

By Kaitlyn Krigbaum

Posted in Guest Posts on 30 May 2019

When procurement looks in the mirror, what do we see?

This share gained 30K views, 40 comments, and over 200 likes in a very short time. ( Click here to view the original post on LinkedIn .) Some of the most compelling comments centered around four core ideas: Procurement must “own” our image Comment from Slav V. : “Like many other functions Procurement can and does exaggerate its value and maturity. Why not! Perception is reality.” Comme...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Procurement on 18 April 2019

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