Apr 10, 2015
I had the opportunity to host a good colleague of mine in my supply chain relationships class this week. We worked together years ago to help define the a baseline framework…
Apr 9, 2015
Lynn Good, Duke Energy’s CEO, spoke at NC State this week, and shared her many thoughts on leadership and transformation. Her vision for what is otherwise often considered a stable…
Feb 9, 2015
I recently spoke with an oil and gas executive, who shared with me his thoughts on post-award contract management. He noted that “Demand management and specification management are some of…
Feb 7, 2015
There has been a huge amount of economic data pouring out in the last two weeks, all the while in the face of news of increasing violence in the Ukraine,…
Dec 15, 2014
Oil prices continued to plummet last week to below $60, and experts predict that it could continue to drop. All of a sudden, what seemed like a boost to the…
Nov 12, 2014
I was in Houston yesterday evening, speaking to a large group of procurement executives at a roundtable held by KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Group, at the fabulous Brennan’s restaurant on Smith…
Oct 13, 2014
Many companies are still proclaiming that they have “collaborative relationships”, but nowhere is this less the case then in the construction industry in oil and gas. In this environment, traditional Design-Build…
Oct 30, 2013
Today’s story in the Wall Street Journal discusses how more operators of the largest truck fleets in the US are in the process of converting their fleets over to natural…
Oct 19, 2013
This past week, I hosted a meeting with a small group of oil and gas procurement executives in Houston to share thoughts on some of the major trends occurring in…
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