Spend Matters have introduced a new product – Spend Matters Compass. This is a series of research and briefing papers around particular areas of interest; the first is “The Services Spending Revolution: Gaining Visibility, Control and Saving”, and will span four different topics. The first brief, now available, is titled: Selecting Services Procurement Technology — Options, Approaches, and Philosophy. The three remaining topics in the series are:
- Beyond Contingent Labor — The Roll of Broader Services Categories in an Overall Services Spend Management Program
- The Managed Services Connection — The Evolving Role of MSPs in the Contingent Spending Ecosystem
- Making Procurement a Services Spend Ally — Tips and Tactics for Winning Over the Business
You have to register in order to download it, but it is free of charge and it is of high quality; well up to the standard I would say of much paid-for research.
I’m biased of coursed as their ‘European Correspondent’ (unpaid…) but it strikes me that, with initiatives like this, the Spend Matters business model challenges a lot of procurement consultants, analysts and journalists!
