Why Chatbots Are Key to Support Automation
Posted: 06/06/2019 - 03:06
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Women in Global Sourcing: Beth Boegershausen
Posted: 06/05/2019 - 20:55
Tell us about your career path. How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?
4 Traits to Look for in a Software Development Outsourcing Vendor for Perfect-Fit Alignment
Posted: 06/04/2019 - 01:00
Newsflash for any company with tech job openings: there are three (!!) opportunities for every candidate, which creates negative unemployment for software developers in North America. For procurement teams, this means it’s time to find software development service providers. You may have “been there done that,” or you might be facing this issue now. The big question is…how do you find the perfect-fit provider that will set your team up for success?
Thinking of Strategic Sourcing? Think Hard.
Posted: 06/04/2019 - 00:46
When companies start to consider adding strategic sourcing to their regular business processes, they often overlook a number of critical considerations. Chief among these are the benefits of a third-party support and – even more crucially – the process of aligning procurement with this new methodology.
How AI and Digital Apps Can Support In-Person Vendor Negotiations
Posted: 06/01/2019 - 10:23
Negotiation is a fundamentally human act between two or more people. When it comes to vendor negotiations, this is driven by the prior (and future) relationship between human counterparties. While digital processes can support this mission, if a key decision maker involved in a vendor negotiation goes on vacation, changes jobs or gets hit by a bus, the negotiation will stall or scramble to reach a conclusion.
Attracting and Retaining Talent in the Face of Low Unemployment
Posted: 05/30/2019 - 03:30
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that employers outperformed forecasts in April by introducing over 260,000 new jobs. This growth, coupled with near-record unemployment is a double-edged sword for American organizations. Though it’s a positive sign for the economy as a whole, low unemployment and a wealth of job openings leave business leaders in a tough position. The fight for attracting top talent is increasingly crowded and competitive. What’s more, candidates have come to expect more in the way of compensation and additional value adds.
Intelligent Automation: Forget Scale – Think Impact
Posted: 05/29/2019 - 03:26
One of the perennial buzzwords in the Automation Industry is scale. Researchers, providers, industry-watchers and the media in general are focussing on the nirvana of delivering Robotic Process Automation (RPA) at scale. This is most likely because there is less success in the industry than was expected…far less.
Cognitive Procurement is Trending and Cognitive Outsourcing is Up Next
Posted: 05/25/2019 - 01:29
There has been a lot of buzz about “cognitive procurement,” the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to support buying goods and services to free up humans to handle valuable procurement functions that AI cannot manage.
The same advanced technologies that are making procurement smarter, more efficient and more data-driven, can be used to make outsourcing relationships leaner, more profitable and more advantageous.
Women in Global Sourcing: Tracy Scheid
Posted: 05/22/2019 - 00:29
Tell us about your career path. How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?
How to Know if Your Print Suppliers are “Green”
Posted: 05/21/2019 - 02:06
Environmental sustainability has become an important topic among sourcing professionals over the past few years. A recent Google search using the term “sustainable procurement” returned just under 28,000 results, and that included only results for the past year. Searches using the terms “sustainable purchasing” and “sustainable sourcing” produced a similar number of results.
Passionate about the Planet with Celia Landesberg from EcoVadis
Posted: 05/20/2019 - 07:46
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Celia Landesberg. Caring about the environment is embedded in the fabric of Celia’s personality since she was a young child. She was thinking about supply chains before she knew what one was.
Promoting the Role of Women in Cybersecurity
Posted: 05/17/2019 - 01:10
Europe is one of the worst offending regions in the world when it comes to women working in cybersecurity, with females making up just 7% of the industry workforce and one of the biggest gender pay gaps in the world according to the Global Information Security Workforce Study.
How do you find the time?
Posted: 05/15/2019 - 23:23
When the Future You Anticipate Never Arrives: Ensuring Your Expected Outcomes Are Accurate
Posted: 05/10/2019 - 01:33
Today, where machines make decisions, the notion of the “right set of data” becomes a lot harder to understand. This is because machines learn differently than we do. In addition, the rationale for the output that they produce is more difficult to reconstruct. Machines do not have the intuition or the critical reasoning that can help to elevate or discount one data point over another. Input data must be free from bias, representative and as accurate as possible.
Job Burnout
Posted: 05/07/2019 - 01:14
Have you been feeling exhausted, depleted and stressed to the core? Ever feel like you don’t have boundaries between your work life or personal life? Do you feel like you’re sinking, unable to meet constant demands, and are starting to have zero motivation? If you’ve said yes to any of those questions to any degree, you may be experiencing job burnout. Let’s take a closer look as to what exactly job burnout is, identify causes, and examine ways to quell the symptoms before they take you down.
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