Recognizing the importance of strategic procurement, Dutch chemical company Royal DSM – a global, purpose-led leader in health and nutrition, applying bioscience to improve the health of people, ...

Over the past several years, the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program and the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University have dedicated countless hours to one central goal: using the ...

There’s been much talk of federal spending this year. Two of us have written on the flow of federal resources, and how locals prepare for major shifts. As we have noted, a critical part of federal ...

A year after COVID-19 sent shock waves through the world’s supply chains, creating the most significant global disruptions in history. The pandemic served as an unfortunate wake-up call for companies ...

In February, Governing, sister publication to Government Technology, released a report ranking 39 states based on their procurement policies. They were ranked in 10 categories, including their use of ...

Not surprisingly, up until now lean procurement has heavily focused on cost as it is a significant percentage of a company’s revenue (often ranging from 50% to 70% of sales) and to some degree on ...

Finally, one lesson emerging from the drawn-out KC-135 tanker replacement duel is for the Pentagon to be a sharper customer by setting spending limits and prioritizing requirements. According to Shay ...

It’s been described as the worst deal Queensland ever negotiated — an initiative that started out looking for ways to fix IT delivery to government agencies, and ended up in a failed payroll project ...

Warfare has driven the design and construction of some of the biggest and most complex machines of their time. No contemporary device matched a sailing warship of the 18th century, a 1900s dreadnought ...

When David Laity founded social enterprise Goodwill Wine almost a dozen years ago, giving back was already a huge part of his life, which had been upended by losses sustained in Australia’s Black ...