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- About Me:
- Procurement professional
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- I'm passionate about applying business intelligence and analysis methods in the strategic sourcing process. The CI / BI - disciplines have many relevant applications for Procurement, e.g. in the selection of financially and commercially viable suppliers and in the post-award monitoring of suppliers.
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Intelligence in Procurement?
Procurement professionals are expected to select suppliers that provide best value-for-money for the company they work for. Implementing some solid business intelligence methods in the supplier selection process is one way of securing best value-for-money and reducing the risk of supplier failure.
Does any of you members on this Forum have experience from using BI in Procurement?
I'm not sure whether there are full-time Procurement professionals on this forum besides me, but maybe there are so… Continue
Does any of you members on this Forum have experience from using BI in Procurement?
I'm not sure whether there are full-time Procurement professionals on this forum besides me, but maybe there are so… Continue
Posted on May 31, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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Hello!
One of the challenges expressed in some earlier discussions on the "Intelligence Collaborative" forum was how to widen the network internationally, to create a truly international group. Approaching various International Chambers of Commer...
Hi Eric!
Thank you for creating this new Group. Living in a world which essentially has bursted in the last couple of years, one in which the smoke has yet not cleared enough for anyone to be able to see where the new pockets of opportunity and l...
A collective of professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe who analyze a world in transition and help guide leaders in their most critical decisions.
Passing on information collected from tenders to other internal departments is a bit of a touchy subject, as there typically is a representation in a confidentiality agreement (that binds the procurement organization) that the information containe...
Analyzing a supplier's cost structure to assess the viability of the supplier's tender prices contains some challenges as to collecting the information in a legitimate way. Cost analysis would require e.g. investigations into the prices of the sup...
Hi Tom,
If you are interested in a book about the use of CI/BI/MI in Procurement operations, Robert Handfield's "Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial handbook for building sourcing strategies" is very valuable.
Best regards,
Ari
I've come across a couple of informative articles that discuss the use of CI in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
This article from 2007 in Supply Management discusses the use of CI in Procurement
http://www.supplymanagement.com/EDIT/CURRE...
Procurement professionals are expected to select suppliers that provide best value-for-money for the company they work for. Implementing some solid business intelligence methods in the supplier selection process is one way of securing best value-f...
Hello there...and a thank you to Arthur Weiss for creating this group. Let's soon plan and see how we can develop this "island" forum. All the best...
A group for people based in the UK (& Ireland) with an interest in competitive & marketing intelligence.
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Aptly worded Arik,
We are all "Prisoners of our Perception".
I don't have a profile in courage to share off the top of my head but I will suggest that the ability to put courage to work communicating skeptical insights depends highly on the self-esteem - or inversely proportioned narcissism - of your client...
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I recently read a blog post from Doug Stephens of Retail Prophet in Canada on the subject of courage.Doug helps retailers deal with future strategic challenges, and has some remarkable insights about retail and leadership. He says that courage is ...
Rethinking the standard / classic model of intelligence to develop innovative new ways of knowing.
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This has been an interesting discussion. I have done some thinking about it and wonder if the differentiation between PI and CI methods is about the end result.
CI methods lead to analysis and deliverables that provide a company with actionable r...
Now, it seems that as if all CI practitioners were the "good ones", and PI practitioners "the evil ones". Then, (if we suppose that people in general have mostly good intentions and moral) why would "the World" (i.e. businesses or citizens) still ...
Yeah. We've already discussed it extensively ( http://competitiveintelligence.ning.com/forum/topics/ci-in-economy-and-politics ). Therefore, let me add only the following argument.
Dear Pavol,
Ethics is the basis of conduct, which is perceived through individual morality and society’s norm of what is "good or bad", "right or wrong". :- Stealing is immoral
A code of conduct is a statement of ethical practices or guidelines ...
Between MORALITY and GREED lies AMBITION.
In the Race for Economic Supremacy of Nations, Ethics serve Country's interests to be globally competitive.
The world is Grey and not Black or White!
Country's Moral & Ethical code and Individual Moral ...
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