A have an old friend who now works at an analyst firm who once described herself as a “serial conference attendee”. She had the luxury […]

About a decade ago, before I dropped out of the academic world, a family member asked me about the best way of doing research. I […]

Editors Note: Sometimes it's important to break the rules. Blogs are supposed to be short. But when I interviewed Transpac Access' Sean Harley and Aptium […]

As many of you have probably gathered from my posts, I'm a big fan of Spend Management innovation. And as I've explicitly called out in […]

Victory! Finally, IT executives are paying attention to supply risk and Spend Management. I came across this feature on Supply Risk in the October 10th […]

I gave a speech yesterday to a group of sixty procurement, supply chain, and operations executives at a conference put on by the American Gas […]

This morning, I caught up with an old colleague and friend in the Spend Management world who focuses on recruiting executive talent on all sides […]

One of my favorite side benefits that I've found from writing a well known blog is getting inbounds from firms that I've not heard of […]

It appears as if Jeff Pikulik might be the latest analyst to leave Aberdeen for the vendor world. On Monday, Harbor Payments posted the following […]

When consultants take out the pen, you never know what's going to come out. But I was pleasantly surprised at the actionable level of detail […]

I had a chat earlier in the week that was all too short with Ted Behrens and Jarvis Cheung of Synaptic Decisions, a new type […]

Personally, I believe that Ariba (Nasdaq: ARBA) has put together a top notch team when it comes to sourcing and supply chain management consulting services. […]

I thought that Purchasing's survey of the do's and don'ts of doing business in China had some helpful tips for those who have not spent […]

I've been gushing over AMR Research too much of late. Like a good "analyst", I need to be more critical of those that I write […]

This morning, I'd like to welcome back a regular guest columnist to Spend Matters. Brian Sommer is a Senior Fellow at Azul Partners, founder of […]