All Posts Tagged With: "On-Demand Smart Catalog Technology"
Too Much Candy Makes You Sick
Enterprises today are using online ordering tools to manage more requisitions, spend categories, and suppliers than ever before. On average, enterprises participating in a recent benchmark study conducted by Aberdeen reduced off-contract (“maverick”) spending by 64%.
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The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Yesterday we talked about lean principles. Key points were: 1) Lean can be applied to the office to eliminate waste from administrative tasks; 2) Companies that get lean now will emerge from the recession with a competitive advantage. But that’s all just talk. What’s the key to creating a company that can consistently deliver on this or any other initiative? A strategy without a concrete action plan is worthless.
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The “R” Word Means We Must Wrestle with the “F” Word
I hope that you read my colleague’s post yesterday on the “R” Word. In it he argued eloquently that R stands for Restructuring, not Recession, and that this is the beginning of the restructuring of America’s financial and business landscape. C-level executives will have one word on their mind as they prepare for 2009: The “R” word. Restructuring of balance sheets to maximize cash; of organizations to get more done with fewer, more productive people; even of entire industries.
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Four51, SAP and the “R” word
Jack Welch, the former General Electric (NYSE: GE) CEO, had a great insight on CNBC’s SQUAWK BOX a few weeks ago when discussing America’s unfolding economic crisis: This is the beginning of the restructuring of America’s financial and business landscape. Then about a week later I listened to the views of industry analyst Gartner Group. They predict CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and other C-level executives will have one word on their minds as they prepare for 2009: The ‘R’ word.
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