October 2010
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September 2010
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How Do You Measure Procurement's Value? Income?
Over the last couple of months a number of the PIU’s members have asked my team to provide them with some inspiration as to how procurement can get more involved in revenue generation. So when I met with David Brown, CEO and Founder of Oxygen Finance, earlier in the month, I was keen to report back on his thoughts as to how procurement could move from the back office, focused on cost...
June 2010
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May 2010
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Looking forward to Jon Kirby's session on 'The...
Jon Kirby CPO AstraZeneca View bio The role of a CPO has moved beyond simply delivering cost reductions and supplier rationalisation to being an integral part of how an organisation delivers value to its customers and shareholders. CPOs must ensure that procurement engages strongly with business units to allow a comprehensive understanding of business needs and encourage the development of...
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The Ariba® Commerce Cloud - Video 4 mins
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Reading Jason Busch's take on Ariba's Cloud...
What’s my quick take on The Ariba Cloud strategy? Simply put, the Cloud is a very easy place from which to hang Ariba’s existing solutions and justify a larger market opportunity. Ariba Discovery, one of the centerpieces of the cloud, is completely unoriginal (it’s a modification of the original suppliermarket.com and more recent MFG.com business model), yet making it work...
Reading: A Good Sign: Ariba’s Earnings Suggest...
In wrapping Spend Matters observations on Ariba’s latest quarter, there are a few points from the earnings report and conference call still worth exploring in more detail. The first is centered on Ariba’s “land and expand” revenue growth strategy, especially in the downstream (i.e., P2P) area. On the call, Bob Calderoni remarked that “we continue to add downstream...
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Reading - Ariba Expands Offerings for Small and...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ariba, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!arba/quotes/nls/arba (ARBA 14.20, +0.51, +3.73%) , the leading spend management solutions provider, today expanded its offerings to help small and medium enterprises drive better commerce with the launch of Ariba(R) StartContracts(TM). A unique on-demand...
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Reading - UK bank to dump BlackBerrys for iPhones
UK bank Standard Chartered is to offer its workers a switch to the iPhone in a move that could strengthen the corporate appeal of the Apple device and see thousands of bankers ditching their BlackBerrys. The bank has agreed to pay monthly billing for business-related phone and data services for its employees using iPhones, according to a Reuters report. ...
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Reading: Gartner's Lack of Attention to Detail...
Last week, I had the chance to catch the final 15 minutes of a presentation by Gartner’s Debbie Wilson at an event in Chicago. Even though I missed the front half of her presentation, the half-dozen or so slides I did see had numerous inconsistencies and mistakes that are important to call out here not to nitpick, but for more important reasons I’ll get to in a minute (hold that...
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Please vote for Procurement Leaders as the best...
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Reading - Oracle Ups Their Procurement Game via...
Earlier this week, I had the chance to meet with a number of Oracle team members at all levels of their solution organization, within procurement and Spend Management. Some of these personalities I’ve known for a decade, including David Hope-Ross, who used to sit in my position when I was briefing him as a Gartner analyst during my time at FreeMarkets. Of course, while it would be fun get...
April 2010
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Getting into a lava – why procurement intelligence...
A sage analyst once told me that nothing creates more nervousness in the procurement community that uncertainty – which doesn’t bode well for the blood pressure of most CPOs at the current time. Whether its the ongoing economic crisis in the eurozone, fuelled by Greece’s precarious financial position, the continued weakness of many of the world’s major currencies and the...
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The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft -...
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Purchasing ceases publication today - 2010-04-16...
Magazine and website will close as part of major divestiture of parent company. Paul Teague — Purchasing, 4/16/2010 1:10:47 PM Reed Elsevier, parent company of Purchasing, announced today that it is closing Purchasing and the magazine’s website, purchasing.com, as well as most of its other U.S. publications, effective...
To Shut Down - A Sad Day in Publishing and...
Earlier this morning, Reed Business Information announced it would shut down all of its 23 remaining trade publications within its portfolio. It had recently attempted to sell its trade titles and was able to find buyers for some publications (21 in total), but a number remained, despite material interest in some of them, which I heard about from various sources. Among the procurement and supply...
ISM and CIPS Cement Reciprocal Agreement |...
The world’s two largest and leading purchasing and supply management organizations are joining forces to offer professional credentials in North America and the United Kingdom. A new agreement between Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) and The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) sets forth reciprocity between the two organizations allowing professionals to apply for...
Will @Ariba announce a link up to @Salesforce...
Having just read a press release from Docusign announcing an extension of their integration into Salesforce through the Salesforce ChatterExchange, I’m predicting that Ariba will follow in their steps within 6 months. Maybe even by the Ariba Live at the end of May. It would make a lot of sense being able to link procurement chatter into your Salesforce Chatter stream, providing sales teams...
BBC Sport - Rugby Union - Ospreys agree London...
The Ospreys are set to launch a joint initiative with London Welsh, who play in English rugby’s second tier. The teams have signed a heads of agreement aimed at sharing as-yet unspecified “expertise and resources”. The deal has led to speculation the Ospreys will loan players to London Welsh as they target a place in the Guinness Premiership. An Ospreys statement read:...
Play #100: Use V2MOM to Focus Your Goals and Align...
How to Create Alignment—the Key to Organizational Success Play #100: Use V2MOM to Focus Your Goals and Align Your Organization The biggest secret of Salesforce.com was a method to ensure constant communication and complete alignment. Developed V2MOM: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, and Measures. Vision: helped defined what we wanted to do. Values: sets the principles and beliefs that...
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BBC News - Departments pledge to cut costs by...
The Department of Health says it is to make cuts of £4.35bn over three years in an “efficiency savings” drive. It is the biggest contribution to £11bn of government savings announced in last year’s pre-Budget report. The Ministry of Defence will cut costs by £700m, education by £1.1bn and work and pensions by £500m. They say they can do so by moving civil servants out of...
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March 2010
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XCHANGING SIGNS A GBP 50 MILLION 3-YEAR...
LONDON, UK, Mar 31, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Xchanging’s procurement processing platform to drive efficiencies and reduce costs in non-core procurement for SELEX Galileo LONDON, 31 March 2010 - SELEX Galileo, a leader in the defence electronics market has signed a three year contract with Xchanging plc /quotes/comstock/23s!e:xch ...
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Carl Guarino, CEO, ICG Commerce (Video)
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Advanced sourcing with Greg Holt and Dean Arnold...
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More U.S. Companies Feel Unwelcome in China -...
By ANDREW BROWNE And LORETTA CHAO BEIJING—A growing number of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in China, according to a new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China, as measures aimed at squeezing foreign technology companies out of the vast government-procurement market start to bite. The survey of Amcham’s members adds to evidence of a darkening mood among...
Government's plan to fix football: give clubs back...
The plans include: • Requiring clubs to hand a stake of up to 25% to fans in recognition of their links with their local community. • Implementing a change-of-control clause that would allow fans a window to put together a takeover of their club if it was up for sale or went into administration. • Giving the football authorities a deadline to reform the FA and remove “vested...
Osaka Express turned out to be a good choice :)
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Kevin Brooks of IQNavigator discusses services...
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Rajesh Voddiraju of CVM Solutions talks Supplier...
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Microsoft CPO Tim McBride talks about expanding...
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Procurement Leaders Forum - Chicago
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An iPhone app to put the fear of God into London...
[UK] Anything that makes the form-filling associated with claiming a refund less tedious is a win for consumers. But it’s also a potential nightmare for governments and companies that provide the services we rely on. Les paper work, more claims. Enter Tube Refund, an iPhone app that aims to significantly reduce the time and effort it takes to file for a refund for a delayed train journey on...
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Ariba Inc. (ARBA) Chairman and CEO Robert...
Chairman and CEO of Ariba Inc. (ARBA) Robert Calderoni sells 18,553 shares of ARBA on 03/09/2010 at an average price of $13.05 a share. Ariba Inc. has a market cap of $1.17 billion; its shares were traded at around $13.15 with a P/E ratio of 47 and P/S ratio of 3.4. Ariba Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 31.1% over the past 5 years. ARBA is in the portfolios of Steven Cohen...
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