What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?

What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?

Disrupting Acquisition Blog What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?   Every few months, someone comes up with this crazy-brilliant new idea to have buying offices, aka Contracting shops, compete for workload to see who can get the job done best, with...
We Don’t Need Another Hero

We Don’t Need Another Hero

Disrupting Acquisition Blog We Don’t Need Another Hero For almost seven years now, I’ve been pulled into conferences, workshops, and speakers’ panels to talk about innovative acquisition techniques. Every year, new names and faces show up on the innovation...
Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets

Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets No matter how many policies and acquisition tools come down from senior leaders — regardless of how creative, streamlined, or innovative — I almost always feel there is something missing...
Understanding the (Not So) Obvious

Understanding the (Not So) Obvious

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Understanding the (Not So) Obvious   In Acquisition, as with most areas of life, we sometimes cannot help one another because we not only don’t understand each other but we don’t even know that we don’t understand one another or what...
Mountains in the Stream

Mountains in the Stream

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Mountains in the Stream ​   The stream is one of those recurring metaphors that shows up throughout all aspects of my life, everything from the Acquisition field to personal views on life, love, spirituality, immortality. Maybe that’s...