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Spend Matters Compass: Supply Risk Management — Understanding the Technology...
The world of supply risk management is continuing to get more and more attention these days. The attention is not exactly new, but it appears that the intent behind it is changing. It seemed that...
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IOD Keynote: Computational Mathematics and Freakonomics
I attended the keynote this morning, on the theme of looking forward: first we heard from Mike Rhodin, an exec in the IBM Software group, then Brenda Dietrich, a mathematician (and VP – finally, a...
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Enhancing SAP and Oracle with Supplier Onboarding, Catalog Management/MDM and...
Spend Matters is thrilled to announce our most recent Compass Research brief, Making ERP Procurement Technology Work — Essential Third-Party Technologies, Solutions and Deployment Models to Accelerate...
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Are Analysts the New Media?
Technology media was further disrupted this morning when a seemingly minor announcement rocked the media world. The minor part is this – a new analyst firm was launched today. The disruptive part is...
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Blast Off To Constellation!
First Things First. Thank You Altimeter Group. The rumors are true. I’ve left, but on good terms. I remain a unit member and investor of Altimeter. I wish my former colleagues the best. In fact,...
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The Industry Speaks about Cloud, Part II: business execs fear its impact on...
HfS Research and The Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics have surveyed 1053 organizations on the future of Cloud Business Service The colossus Cloud Business Services study we just...
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New Compass Research: The Future of Spend Visibility and Analytics — Three...
In my first real job out of graduate school, I spent much of my day analyzing structured and unstructured information to come up with potential scenarios for companies, industries and markets. The...
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Announcing HfSResearch.com!
We’ve known each other for a while, haven’t we? You’ve seen us evolve from a blog to a research analyst firm over the last four years. Now we’re taking the next step in our evolution and launching our...
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Is Social the Future of Knowledge? Help Me Find Out
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the role of Knowledge and Knowledge Management in the age of Social. I am not going to offer links here, sorry, since I consider most of the entries out...
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News Flash: Social in the Enterprise is not for Amateurs
In the early days of experimentation with 2.0 in the Enterprise, anyone could really fire up a wiki or blog, port some RSS feeds, and call an impromptu meeting in the cafeteria to recruit a renegade...
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New Research: Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and Consortia — What You...
I’ll admit, for quite a long time, I found the philosophical concept of typical group purchasing organizations or consortia to be somewhat flawed. After all, any entity or intermediary that makes its...
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I, For One, Welcome our New Social Data Overlords
Historically, the trouble I’ve always had with social media was the precision deficit surrounding the interpretation of its influence. It always seemed to me that if you could get, say, Chris Brogan...
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MIT Traced Twitter’s Rise Through Conventional Social Nets
Researchers at MIT have concluded from a research study that the spread of Twitter occurred through traditional social channels. That might not seem earth shaking because, well, how else would a new...
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The Apps Revolution Manifesto
I’ve been reading a research paper put out by Credit Suisse called The Apps Revolution Manifesto – Volume 1: The Technologies. It’s a fascinating read, if you can get a copy I would encourage you to...
View ArticleNew Research: Manufacturing and Direct Materials Sourcing: A Planning Guide...
MetalMiner and Spend Matters are excited to announce the launch of a combined research study, Manufacturing and Direct Materials Sourcing: A Planning Guide for the Next Decade. Authored by Jason Busch...
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Research data on cloud growth and focus
New research from VC firm, North Bridge, adds to the body of evidence that cloud continues to take hold in the enterprise. Image credit: Cloud Watching by Michael Krigsman Although cloud growth may...
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Social Research Key Findings
At the recently completed CRM Evolution conference, sponsored by CRM Magazine in New York, Esteban Kolsky presented some of the results of our social media research. We’d been working on it for most...
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May I Recruit Your Help in a Knowledge Management Research Project?
Late in 2011 I conducted my first market research project on Knowledge Management. I wanted to get an idea of what was going on in the world, what projects you (royal you, not you personally) were...
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What’s Your Story?
Every social graph tells a story. In this sweeping visualization of nodes and connections, you can see the shape of my career history and relationships. This imprint of my LinkedIn social...
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Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant
Fellow Enterprise Irregular and HfS Research Founder Phil Fersht introduced their new Blueprint with an appropriate title: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint. I think such a milestone warrants...
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