Data Analysis
Where Data and Operations Intersect to Meet COVID-19 Challenges
There is no shortage of analysis and predictions today regarding COVID-19 and our future. While experts of all walks of life weigh in via global news channels, healthcare organizations are still left addressing the here and now as well as surges that could happen tomorrow, next week or in a few months. For those supporting the front lines securing necessary supplies and resources, it is paramount to be able to deliver what is urgently needed.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Procurement
Today, about 80% of large organizations are using artificial intelligence in their core business – compared to about 10% just five years ago. Companies that focus on AI are harnessing opportunities from vast data availability, machine learning and complementary technologies such as cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and 3-D printing. And they are doing so with a focus on short-term benefits as well as long-term growth. According to Harvard Business Review, if you miss out, the opportunity cost could be as much as 41% of revenue by 2023.
What IT Procurement Professionals Must Know about Data Center Hardware Maintenance RFPs
When the Future You Anticipate Never Arrives: Ensuring Your Expected Outcomes Are Accurate
Patterns of Innovation in Business and Biotechnology
How Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Help Create Structured Versus Unstructured Data
Where Will Outsourcing Head to in 2018?
This time last year I wrote in these pages about the year ahead for outsourcing. The key trend I focused on was an increase in partnership with clients and suppliers getting much closer—and that seems to have taken place throughout 2017. One major driver for this has been the change in how consumers become aware of a product and then convert into customers...what marketing professionals call the ‘customer journey.’ Think for a moment about the classic customer journey.
The Legal View: Brexit (Part 1)
Nearly two weeks after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union (the ‘Brexit’), very little has become clear in terms of what this means for the country and the EU itself – and the sourcing and outsourcing space in the region - and even how and when the exit process will take place. Obviously, such a momentous transition should not be rushed through over-hastily; however, uncertainty can have a paralysing economic and commercial impact and pressure is already mounting on the British government to begin the formal exit process.