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This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Sourcing Solved's Iain McKenna following our recent webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation: Finding an alternative...more
Christmas Special Peter Smith hosts our Christmas special, alongside Market Dojo's Co-Founder Alun Rafique and Senior Business Development Manager, Pete Glass aka Procurement Pe...more
Following our latest and ever popular webinar hosted by Jon Hansen "The Real Obstacle to Digital Transformation" webinar, our host Jon Hansen has put together the below Knowledge N...more
Do you, as a procurement professional, still use spreadsheets to do your job? In line with our recent webinar on digital transformation and the alternatives to spreadsheets and ...more
This blog has been written by Market Dojo's CEO Alun Rafique, ahead of our upcoming webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation: Finding an alternative to spreadsheets an...more
This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Procurement Insights' Jon Hansen, ahead of our upcoming webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation: Finding an alternative ...more
10 Ways To Fiddle Your Procurement Savings Acquisitions, Deliveroo, a new procurement book from a familiar author and 10 ways to fiddle your procurement savings… Peter Smith a...more
Following our highly popular and successful "Evolution Before Transformation" webinar, our host Jon Hansen has put together the below Knowledge Note outlining the key findings from...more
Global Trade Wars, Gender Pay Gaps, Brexit and Sex Lairs... Peter Smith and Market Dojo Co-Founders Alun Rafique and Nick Drewe discuss the latest procurement news, draw compari...more
The following Blog was written by Andre Le Lerre, guest panellist in the May 21st Market Dojo webinar; Evolution Before Transformation: How Procurement Will Best Leverage Digital O...more
I think we can all agree that Bill Gates is a top bloke. Aside from being one of the most influential people in our lifetime, he’s done what a lot more people in h...more
The following Blog was written by Jon Hansen, Host for the May 21st Market Dojo webinar; Evolution Before Transformation: How Procurement Will Best Leverage Digital On-Demand To Ac...more
This guest blog comes from our Beyond the Bolt Webinar host, Jon Hansen. As the Editor and lead writer for the Procurement Insights Blog, Jon Hansen has written nearly 3,000 articl...more
This guest blog has been written by Kavita Cooper, Managing Director for our newly announced procurement consultancy partner, Novo-K. Novo-K provides cost-effective procurement su...more
Angus Craig FCIPS is an interim procurement consultant who helps organisations improve procurement and supply chain performance. This often involves leading transformation prog...more
This guest blog is written by Howard Price. Howard is a Procurement, Supply Chain and Cost Transformation Consulting. To be able to understand the importance of an SRM, I’m goi...more
Sign up to our upcoming webinar here. “Back in 2008 Oracle’s Larry Ellison said that “we have redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.” Dis...more
This week's guest blog comes from Procurement Punk, an anonymous industry influencer who shares his thoughts via Twitter. Modern slavery example: A sign of modern slavery, for ex...more
We are pleased to welcome a guest post by Andrew Lister from Beam Energy Labs, a platform helping businesses assess and procure solar and batteries. You may have missed the...more
This edition of our Blog is written by Richard Ainley who currently works at Manchester Airports Group as their e-Commerce and Performance Spend Manager. He has previously held sen...more
It’s hard to avoid the political quagmire that is the Home Office decision to source the new UK Passport from French firm Gemalto, ahead of the UK’s De La Rue. There are...more
After 8 hours travelling on a boat, I finally put the wheels of my car on British soil. My first reaction was, why did they not drive on the right side of the road like everybody e...more
Market Dojo provides an eSourcing solution based entirely in the cloud. And whilst we boast about all the benefits of being a SaaS company, such as pay per use pricing and delivery...more
Our latest blog post introduces the founders of an exciting new venture for procurement news - A Trending in Procurement app. Co-Founder Leslie McBride reached out to us here at...more
Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more
We recently encountered an article on Linkedin by Rémy de Lavergne, a highly experienced procurement professional with a specialism in Logistics. Rémy had clearly put some though...more
From our presentation at Procurement Summit 2015 entitled, "Strategies to maximise your eAuction returns"....more
This is the second guest article by Greg Tennyson, CPO at VSP Global, discussing the importance of managing your Tail Spend. Pareto This Tail Spend Tail Spend generally foll...more
This is a paper written by Dr Peter James from Bristol Business School at UWE Bristol for the 2012 IPSERA conference. Similar papers can be found at www.ipsera.com....more
Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. This time our guest contributor is Erik Van Kampen. Erik is an experienced and ...more
Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. Dr Paul Joesbury has experience as a CPO at a number of organisations including ...more
Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. Dr Paul Joesbury has experience as a CPO at a number of organisations including ...more
Andrey Matveev offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Andrey has pioneered fully-managed eAuctions in Russian retail. Andrey’s expertise comes from both sides of the neg...more
Inspired by Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, Market Dojo are investigating what the first 100 days of a successful CPO would look like. Grey Tennyson, Chief Procurement Of...more
Inspired by Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, Market Dojo are investigating what the first 100 days of a successful CPO would look like. Grey Tennyson, Chief Procurement Of...more
Hi, I'm Ed, And this is my Market Dojo experience. Firstly, I had no idea about the company apart from my own research. In my research, I kept on seeing words which were unfamilia...more
Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more
Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more
Before our inaugural Market Dojo Event on Thursday 6th April 2017, we caught up with presenter Nick Ford. Nick is an Executive Director of Odesma and has over 28 years experie...more
Jon Brinsmead has been buying goods and services for clients for over 20 years, working with the likes of Unilever and Transport for London whilst providing training in commerci...more
We caught up with presenter Iain McKenna, before the 2017 Market Dojo Event. Iain is the Managing Director of Sourcing Solved and presented “The Human Condition: Finding The...more
Jon Brinsmead has been buying goods and services for clients for over 20 years including Ahold Delhaize, Unilever and Transport for London. Over the same period of time, Jon has b...more
In a recent article featured in the January 2017 edition of The Oath. Khaled Shivji, Head of Legal at Aggreko explains how he has used Market Dojo to successfully appoint a l...more
We are delighted to have our recent article on the A-Z of Reverse Auctions published on Spend Management blog, Spend Matters. The article highlights our A-Z complication...more
Market Dojo is pleased to welcome a guest post from Noel Green. Noel is the Founder of ContractsWise, the innovative cloud-based contract management and administrative softwar...more
Bruno Alvarez is regarded in Latin America and the Americas as one of the Leading Contracting and Procurement Experts in the region. Bruno’s background comes from the Energy and...more
Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortli...more
Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortlis...more
Bruno Alvarez is regarded in Latin America and the Americas as one of the Leading Contracting and Procurement Experts in the region. Bruno’s background comes from the Energy and ...more
Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortlist...more
Tony Lockwood is a published author, lifestyle entrepreneur, high-performance business coach and senior consultant who works with Executive teams to orchestrate the development an...more
We are pleased to welcome a guest post by Adam Maidment from Portfolio Procurement, a market-leading procurement recruitment specialist. Discussing the unique challenges to recruit...more
Peter Schmidt's latest article discusses the generic benefits of SAAS and what eAuctions in the cloud means to businesses. 'Software as a Service', commonly abbreviated to SAAS, ...more
Peter Schmidt writes a guest blog for Market Dojo on his past experience with eAuctions. Peter has a long track record in, sales, consultancy and procurement. He specialises in Tel...more
We recently had the great pleasure of taking part in a radio interview with Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights in one of a series of interviews as a follow up to Market Dojo being ...more
Market Dojo and Odesma partner to combine their intuitive eSourcing softwareand expertise in offering business advisory services to offer clients a winning procurement solution....more
Market Dojo and Odesma partner to combine their intuitive eSourcing software and expertise in offering business advisory services to offer clients a winning procurement solution. T...more
Market Dojo provides an eSourcing solution based entirely in the cloud. And whilst we boast all the benefits of being a Saas company, such as pay per use pricing and delivery, in...more
"What would Market Dojo be like today if it had started 10 years earlier?" That was the question posed by Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights one fine day in April. Having o...more
This article was a challenge to write and should be viewed with good humour and in an amicable fashion. As a good French and European citizen, I am obliged to defend our interests ...more
Last week we bid a fond farewell to our intern Alex who spent 9 glorious weeks at Market Dojo HQ. Whilst here he worked on translation of the website, wrote content for the blog an...more
In case you missed it, we recently enhanced our Case Study page. This included a neat filter option to help our visitors zone into the segment of interest, be it Private or Publ...more
This is a guest post by Vlado Prosenik from Efekto Pro. Efekto Pro are our consultancy partner in Slovenia. They help customers make purchases more efficient. You can read the ...more
We would like to thank Sourcing Innovation for two great blog posts on Market Dojo. The Sourcing Innovation blog was started in June of 2006, is authored and edited by Michael ...more
We recently met up with a small french consultancy, Effixens at cafe Lala in Hammersmith. On the menu was some fantastic mediterranean food as well as a healthy dose of eSourci...more
Editor’s Note: When Kelly Barner and Alun Rafique submitted this post on the variables in the adoption of auctions, they hit close to home in terms of an area of procurement abo...more
Posted on February 4, 2014 by PI Blogger Procurement Insights Blog Editors note: We had the great pleasure to be picked as a finalist for the 'Year in the life series' on t...more
This article is a follow-up piece by Nick Drewe, co-founder of Market Dojo, who used the Market Dojo eSourcing tool to let a contract with local builders for his own home extension...more
By The Bristol Post | Posted: February 05, 2014 By Gavin Thompson A NORTH Bristol firm has led the way in online reverse auctions, in which businesses get suppliers to bi...more
PETER SMITH - January 16, 2014 12:05 AM http://spendmatters.com/uk/innovation-dojo-another-new-product-market-dojo/ We featured Market Dojo and their new ‘Category Dojo’ ...more
PETER SMITH - January 13, 2014 7:31 AM http://spendmatters.com/uk/category-dojo-new-product-market-dojo/ If all the surveys and predictions are correct, topics such as suppli...more
The following article featured as a guest post on the excellent Procurement Insights EU blog. It outlines some of the challenges we have faced whilst working with local governm...more
We were very proud to be invited to the Salon Solutions event in Paris on the 1st-3rd October by our French partner, Effixens. As the only French speaker on the Market Dojo team, i...more
Below is a post from one of our partners, TotalSoft, who is the leading ERP provider in Romania with over 1500 customers across 27 countries. We partnered with them to provide ou...more
Our intern Antoine Boton sums up his experience on his 6 week internship with Market Dojo. Here is an outline of his typical day's work with us: Before arriving at the Market Doj...more
For the next few weeks, we are lucky enough be working with two interns from France, Camélia Chiguer and Antoine Boton. Here are the observations about the cultural differences ...more
Today we are very pleased to welcome a guest post from Optimum Procurement. Jane McAuliffe from Optimum was kind enough to participate in a recent product requirements workshop,...more
Back in 2012, we received a great deal of interest from customers and prospects considering the use of Market Dojo for sourcing of legal services. Today we are pleased to welcome ...more
Buyers Meeting Point has written a great article about our new Samurai release. We were so pleased, here it is in full: ENTER THE SAMURAI: ESOURCING MADE SIMPLE In October 2010...more
We would like to say a massive thanks to Tea, Liz, Sanni and their lecturer Ben, all from the Digital Film Production course from University of Gloucestershire , for their time a...more
To get us started, give us a little background on Market Dojo and the team. Two of the founding Directors, Alun Rafique and I, worked as cost reduction consultants for a nearly ...more