UNIFIED PROCUREMENT PLATFORM

We recently spent some quality time with one of our customers and we talked about how procurement can make a difference in the way a business operates.

What was remarkable was the way in which they told us a few simple truths about the power of combining the right motivation with the right technology.

Before the middle of the 18th century, one of the most powerful nations in Europe, indeed the world, was Sweden. With a strong military and a sizable population of around 20 million, Sweden rivalled Great Britain and France in both reach and heft. Or so the Swedish authorities believed. Then, triggered by a significant economic downturn, in 1749 the Swedish authorities conducted their first comprehensive census to find out what their economy should look like and discovered, to their horror, that the population of the country totaled no more than 2 million. Less than 10 percent of previous estimates.

With yet another Summer of superhero action movies upon us, I find myself imagining a world where you could customize and configure your anatomy to make yourself bigger, faster, and stronger. Perhaps make yourself resistant to injury

The outbreak of the “WannaCry” malware attack on May 12, 2017 was an eye-opener for governments, public sector institutions, businesses and individuals around the globe. The scale, reach, pace of spread and impact of the attack was unlike any other cyber-attack before. This may only be the beginning and possibly a wakeup call for organizations and netizens across the globe.

Lately, it had become so hard to play music at home that I’d all but given up. It never used to be that way. There was a time when I could just go to the shelf, get a CD, put it in a machine and hit play. Oh, happy days! Today, technology allows you to organize your music library with functionalities like playlists, shuffling, “play songs that other people had heard”, group by genre, recently purchased, etc