Strategic Sourcing Europe

Just for you to know:  I’ll be there, very much excited to get back to the Netherlands where I spent 6 years of my life…and of course to share with several hundreds customers our experience and roadmap for the future… for the Cloud!
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The news came out yesterday: Capgemini Group today announced its acquisition of on-demand purchasing solutions provider IBX and with it, the availability of the industry’s first global end-to-end, Procurement-as-a-Service offering. Having collaborated together since summer 2009, Capgemini and IBX decided to join forces in order to drive development of a new global procurement service offering and further expand the addressable market for IBX’s best-in-class technology

“Sho(pping) time!” After Mobile Worker, it’s Verticalnet’s turn to loose its independence, being in the process of being acquired by BravoSolution, an Italcimenti’s subsidiary. The acquisition will give birth to a EUR40 Million Spend Management Solutions provider, with good presence in US and Europe. Another good move from BravoSolution, as the cost of the [...]

Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don’t you think?
No, don’t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk’s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh?
Here is the explanation: “The name ‘Kirkman’ is [...]

I’ve fished this news fresh from today. It has been posted here on cc-hubwoo website.
The news went fast around as I found it initially on SpendMatters a couple of hours ago, thanks to Jason Busch.
Before sharing some of my feelings and first thoughts on the face of it, let me remind you cc-hubwoo’s strategy as [...]

While a growing number of eSourcing technology vendors are outsourcing their originally in-house consulting services to focus on ASP technology services and becoming pure technology vendors, InterSources is one of the very few that has choosen the totally opposite-path since its launch in 2003. Good move indeed, as InterSource is now benefiting from a global [...]

Though the impact of sustainable development in the supply chain and procurement has been on HEC radar screen for already 4 years, the french HEC School of management has decided to expand their research with the support of Ariba – duly represented by an eProcurement/eSourcing pioneer Pierre Francois Thaler, currently director of [...]

The office for official publication of the European communities is a publishing house whose multicultural and multilingual orientation makes it unique. Anyone can consult uits book catalogue at the EU bookshop, the online bookshop for all official publications of the European Union. Many publications can be downloaded free as PDF documents.
I’ve browsed the EU bookshop [...]

France entered the international television news market (CNN, BBCworld and Al-Jazira International mainly) yesterday with the launch of France 24 — a round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a different perspective on world events. France 24 is the first french channel broadcasted in English as well as in French and [...]

A long time ago (5 years!) I was trying to sell eutilia concept and services (B2B procurement SaaS) to a french CAC40 multinational. At the end of the first and unique 1 hour meeting I got with some key executives of this company, closed by the usual “well, great, let us some time to [...]