Twelve Days of Christmas: What will the cost be this year?
By: Mickey North Rizza Every year PNC Financial Services Group announces the cost of what your true love can send to you during the Twelve Days of Christmas, better known as the PNC Christmas Price...
View ArticleTwelve Days of Christmas & Procurement Opportunities: Ninth Day
By: Mickey North Rizza On the ninth day of Christmas, my business enabled Procurement to incorporate the fundamental component of Continuous Improvement into our business. Finding value for money and...
View ArticleTwelve Days of Christmas & Procurement Opportunities: Eleventh Day
By: Mickey North Rizza On the eleventh day of Christmas, my business enabled Procurement to incorporate the advanced and game changing component of Innovation into our business. The Hackett Group has...
View ArticleTechnology ROI: Are Your Trusting Your System?
By: Mickey North Rizza I recently read an article from George Palmatier that I found fascinating: Employees “work outside the system because the information in the system can’t be trusted.” Palmatier...
View ArticleInternet Trends That Put Our Changing World into Perspective
By: Mickey North Rizza In early December my colleague Chris Kuhn gave me a whole new perspective on our changing world. He introduced me to Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and...
View ArticleTechnology Cube: Tips, Techniques and Time Savers
By: Mickey North Rizza I am on a roll of setting up a series of blogs — so welcome to Technology Cube, a weekly blog of information on technology tips, techniques and time savers. A few days ago I...
View ArticleTechnology Cube spotlights Sourcemap: Mapping the evolution of your product...
By: Mickey North Rizza Sourcemap, invented in the MIT Media Lab, is a website for mapping global supply chains and visualizing supply chain risk. The website is open source, allowing anyone to put up...
View ArticleTechnology Cube: Business Apps are filling the Value Chain Visibility Gap
By: Mickey North Rizza Among the hot new technology trends are mobile device applications (apps) that assist the business community. With global on-demand business now a way of life, more and more...
View ArticleTechnology Cube: iPhone app to track Government Contract Activity
By: Mickey North Rizza GovTribe, a startup in Arlington, VA, developed hōrd, an iPhone app that changes the way Federal Government contracts are followed. The app provides users access to real-time...
View ArticleTechnology Cube: Technology Supply Chain Security Standard
By: Mickey North Rizza Risk management is a standard practice in most companies, and definitely those with IT products. Counterfeit and intentional malfunctioning or sabotage to technology products...
View ArticleHow Samsung Spends its Profits
Samsung has an interesting approach to when, where and what the company spends its money on. Below is an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal that explains it better than I can: Samsung routinely...
View ArticleImplementing a New Major IT System – The Likely Difficulties and How Best to...
In the last post we discussed how difficulties may arise when implementing a new major IT system and in this post we identify what those likely difficulties are and how best to overcome them. A major...
View ArticleWhat are you buying? Software, Valueware or Vaporware…
By Sara Omer Working with all those clients that I collaborate with, I noticed their increasing demand for acquisition of ICT solutions, hardware, upgrades, and so on. In some instances it can reach up...
View ArticleAre There Any New Technology Gadgets for Christmas 2013?
By: Mickey North Rizza Yes, it is only July, but Christmas is just five months away and that means new and also improved technology gadgets will start to appear in TV and Internet ads, as inventory,...
View ArticleNewflash: Strategic Sourcing Could Save Billions!
by Dan Warn Last week I blogged about the President’s new management initiative to create a better, smarter and faster government. This week, a senate hearing was convened to discuss the impact and...
View ArticleApplying Big Data Transparency to Improve Our Lives
By: Mickey North Rizza In 2002 I was using a Handspring Treo, a personal device assistant (PDA) to capture my address book information and emails. A few years later, I was using a RIM Blackberry to...
View ArticleFailure to Communicate = Misalignment
Business strategies are developed all the time. Business strategies often fail during implementation because the strategies are not shared with those that need to execute them. George Palmatier said...
View ArticleFlashback Thursday: Technology Trends Since 3500 B.C.
Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of enjoying a panel discussion with Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell of Spend Matters. Jason (Spend Matters’ owner and guru); Pierre (former AMR Research Analyst...
View ArticleFall Haul: Prep for 2014 Execution
Summer winds down, vacations are a memory, trees start to turn colors, sweaters appear, days are shorter and the nights are cooler; all a sure sign that the new school year has begun and the business...
View ArticleShotgun Training (Part 1)
I think most of us have heard of a shotgun wedding, but how many of you have heard of the shotgun approach to training? No, it’s not when a manager marches their team to a training course at...
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