There’s something about Enterprise Software and not necessarily in a good way. Once software is tagged as being “Enterprise”, expectations, level of stakeholders tolerance and the general sense of acceptable sacrifice become different from other software; no matter how “Enterprise-y” the software really is. The mindset-shift is
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Over the years, we have received many solicitations from organizations seeking to gain further understanding of the providers within our market space, find areas of differentiation, and score the various solutions. Among the cornucopia of questions, there have been some insightful gems. The lions’ share, however, are
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Facts: A record 735 FCPA enforcement actions were filed in fiscal year 2011 – with over $2.8 billion in associated penalties. (source: SEC) 78% of Global 2000 organizations did not include partners/suppliers in their Code of Conduct practices. (source: Business Ethics Management Group) The FCPA and Anti-Bribery
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Rock-a-bye, baby in the tree top, when the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, and down will come baby, cradle and all. As a simple nursery rhyme that we all know, it provides an applicable foreboding to the risks faced
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A recent Deloitte report on Human Capital Trends notes that the combination of globalization, competition and the connected workforce has made the goal of finding the right talent an increasingly strategic issue. Based on these types of findings, HICX recognizes a trend has taken shape that is transforming workforce
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As organizations continue to consider the supplier management technology, the relationship that most think of in this dynamic is often between the buyer and supplier relationships. However, in many cases, the approach to managing this dynamic may need to incorporate a third aspect– that is the “customer”.
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In our final look at the value of supplier information management for IT, this may be the most difficult group to convince, but in ways may have the most to contribute. Convincing IT to get used to a different platform, other than say an ERP or internally
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While there are many ways to look at it, the value of supplier information management for compliance, unlike other topics covered in this series, it is not specific to a role, but has shared value across several different functions. Compliance requirements are pervasive and most often dictated
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In continuing last week’s discussion to further upstream processes, we can see that the value of supplier information management can actually start with sourcing. Sourcing at its core is the beginning of how organizations engage with their suppliers in activities from supplier discovery through to contract execution.
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Last week we glanced over the one area that Accounts Payable (AP) would be responsible for, with regard to supplier management, tax credentialing – see The Value of Supplier Information Management: The Tax Credentialing Use Case. But, of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg,
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