Author Archives: Owen Inglis-Humphrey

eProcurement – and a lack of trust that holds us back

Owen Inglis-Humphrey - January 17, 2013 5:13 AM | Categories: Procurement good practice

In this series of articles we are looking at why eProcurement in businesses has failed to live up to the enjoyable and simple experiences of home shopping.  We now turn our attention to the staff who are being asked to engage in the activity. Why is it that so many projects in business start with the premise, whether intentionally or not, that staff are not to be trusted and must be kept within very tight boundaries.  What is it we fear?  That an administrator might actually see the pens reserved for the Chief Exec, that a member of marketing might [...]

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Implementing eProcurement – who defines the process?

Owen Inglis-Humphrey - December 10, 2012 10:31 AM | Categories: Procurement good practice

(Owen Inglis-Humphrey is a long-serving e-Procurement practitioner and now Director of advisory firm, More then Glue). In my first article (available here) we considered the issues that business users face reconciling why there are differences between the web shopping experience they have at home and the one they are forced to endure at work. Having set that scene, it’s now important to look at what we can do to make it better and hopefully staff can finally realise the position that they were promised back before the turn of the millennium. eProcurement should represent simple to use systems that allow [...]

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So why can’t eProcurement in business be like on-line shopping at home?

Owen Inglis-Humphrey - November 28, 2012 1:31 PM | Categories: Procurement Commentary

(In what we hope is going to be the first of many guest posts, we’re pleased to welcome Owen Inglis-Humphrey, a long-serving e-Procurement practitioner and now Director of advisory firm, More then Glue). When I first came across the subject of eProcurement back in the late 90s it was in an age where the internet was still a new phenomena.  Children of the day still wanted to spend their days hanging out in the shopping malls, or going around to friends houses.  Music was still something that came on round plastic discs and people actually talked to each other, face [...]

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