More Thoughts on New Contracting Models for Government Acquisition
The significant challenges associated with federal acquisition policies are well documented. Many problems with government acquisition are related to contract management, often mentioned as a core...
View ArticleSpend Analytics in the Federal Acquisition Sector
Acquisition in the federal government has been identified as a major source of potential savings in the future, as in the private sector, but a recent set of workshops and interviews identified some...
View ArticleLegal Experts Need to be Front and Center in Negotiating Software Contracts
I had the opportunity to engage in a negotiation seminar with a large insurance company last week, and had the team work on a software contract role play. In the scenario, there was both a buyer and...
View ArticleVan Horne Institute Considers Alaska Transport Route, and Weighs Trump’s...
On election night last week, I was stationed in Calgary Alberta, watching the results unfold in Mountain Time, and wondering what was going on in the country I’ve adopted as home. You see, I’m a...
View ArticleHandfield’s 2017 SCM Predictions: Impact of the Trump Presidency on the...
OK, so Trump won, Clinton lost. Get over it, it’s a done deal. Time to move on, and figure out what this means in terms of how the global economy will be impacted, and in particular, how the supply...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s Announcement of Withdrawal from the TPP Means for US Supply...
Here’s a new insight by Tim Barnes in a guest blog this week, after Donald Trump announced the withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership for the United States. I’ve been traveling the country this...
View ArticleSCRC Meeting: Mapping the Road Ahead in a Time of Daily Disconcerting Tweets
This week we announced the theme of our upcoming Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting. The theme of the meeting, “Mapping the Road Ahead in Uncertain Times”, brings together a number of industry...
View ArticleExecutive Panel on “Navigating the Road Ahead in Uncertain Times” Coming Up!
Based on the deluge of news coming from the press on Trump, Russia, China, trade talks, tax reform, healthcare reform, and a multitude of topics, it’s enough to make your head spin. This is...
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Insights from Counterfeit Roundtable at NC State Part 2: Interdiction and...
This past week we held a roundtable focused on “Combating Counterfeiting in the Supply Chain”. This post is a continuation of an earlier post I wrote on this subject. Counterfeiting is seen as a...
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Is the FAR getting in the way of Early Supplier Involvement in defense projects?
Product development within the U.S. defense industry tends to follow a waterfall-phased lifecycle development approach beginning at the concept level and concluding at the subsystem/component level....
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