Procurement is a tough gig. You have pressures from all sides. From your suppliers who are trying to creep costs up over time to stakeholders who demand an increasing speed of business to management who wants to cut costs as far as possible. You’re more than a buyer of things, and it’s time to prove it.
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ITAD at the Bleeding Edge: High-Frequency Trading
Think ITAD is just for old, out-of-date hardware? Think again. The high-frequency trading industry it renowned for it’s cutting edge technology improvements. They helped ditch fiber and move to microwave to increase the bandwidth and reduce latency between New York and Chicago. The speed of light1 wasn’t fast enough […]
Transforming ITAD with Bimodal IT
As we head into the Gartner Symposium this coming week, I wanted to take a moment to focus on a topic that will continue to be emphasized by Gartner for the remainder of the year: bimodal IT. Not just the basic plan of separating your IT development into two halves, traditional and innovative – that’s been done to […]
Agility in IT – Applying Lean Thinking with ITAD
ITAD For Procurement - What You Need and Why You Need to Know It
Where do electronics go when they die? Why do we send them there? Do all servers go to heaven? We will answer these questions and more in this series covering the basic ideas of IT Asset Disposition (ITAD). Each post will introduce (or reintroduce) tech specialists to the afterlife of IT from ‘how to’ to ‘have to’. […]
This one problem can derail your lifecycle management
How To Improve The Lifetime Value Of Your Enterprise Assets
Do you remember the first time you put on a pair of glasses? Maybe, like me, you were in middle school, sitting in the doctor’s chair and looking out the window as he slid the glasses down onto the bridge of your nose for the first time. Suddenly, everything was clear. The greens in the trees seem brighter… and are […]
What You Need to Understand about Reverse Logistics
If you’re like most IT leaders, your life revolves around numbers: response SLAs, Uptime, Performance, Utilization. So when I ask you about reverse logistics, first let me give you an eye-popping number – $200,000,000,000 – Two Hundred Billion Dollars in returns annually. That’s the annual value of product returns as […]