Day: July 5, 2011

  • So… on which side of the fence sits Gideon Gartner?

    July 05, 2011 |

    So the Grandaddy of great big research, and (arguably) the founding father of today's IT industry analyst business, Gideon Gartner, picked up on our recent post "Will the industry analyst business be dead in five years?"Read More

  • Meet the sultan of strategic sourcing

    July 05, 2011 |

    While we were having some in-depth discussions with Microsoft's CPO, Tim McBride, it became apparent how important niche specialist BPOs, such as Alpar's firm Denali, are to the global sourcing mix for many organizations. So we thought we'd take a few minutes to have a discussion with Alpar about the future of the procurement function and the role of the CPO.Read More