Podcast Episodes
Back to Search344: 2021: Post-Crisis Procurement w/ Chris Sawchuk and Vishal Patel
Regardless of how you might choose to describe your journey through 2020, it is finally coming to an end. And while some of its effects will be with …
5 years, 10 months ago
343: AOP Mastermind LIVE 2020 Recap: A New Day for Procurement
After months of planning, weeks of preparation, and days of sleepless nights, Mastermind LIVE 2020 is officially in the books. We had set an extreme…
5 years, 10 months ago
342: Bad Buying - Tales of Waste Billions w/ Peter Smith
For many years, Peter Smith wanted to write a book that was fundamentally about procurement but would appeal to a wider business audience, One that w…
5 years, 10 months ago
341: The Current State of Telecom Spend W/ Dave Pastore
Telecom has been on an interesting and unique journey as a spend category. Gone are the days when all that was needed to deliver significant savings …
5 years, 10 months ago
340: Developing Procurement's Unique Selling Proposition w/ Juergen Scherer
AOP Host Philip Ideson starts each interview with a question about what brought that particular guest to procurement. With this week's guest, busines…
5 years, 11 months ago
339: How to Use Sales Techniques to Ace the Stakeholder Introduction Meeting
Although procurement professionals don't usually think of ourselves as making 'cold calls,' we do it all the time. If you've ever sat down with a sta…
5 years, 11 months ago
338: Building Your Procurement Digital Roadmap w/ Christopher Eyerman and David Clevenger
One year ago, all procurement could talk about was digital transformation. Enter the COVID-19 pandemic, and many of those plans were thrown overboard…
5 years, 11 months ago
337: The Current State of IT Spend W/ Rene Mathis
Technology is an extremely broad spend category and it is expanding by the day because of our emphasis on digital transformation. Nearly every functi…
5 years, 11 months ago
336: Rewind - How Google's Sourcing Team Became a Trusted Business Partner w/ Tim Jones
For the rest of August, I'm taking a roadtrip across the United States, and so because I'm out of the recording studio, I'm going to dip into the arc…
5 years, 11 months ago
335: Rewind - The Tao of Procurement w/ Jack Miles
For the rest of August, I'm taking a roadtrip across the United States, and so because I'm out of the recording studio, I'm going to dip into the arc…
6 years ago