Posts tagged: data
5 posts
- The First 90 Days in a Data Leadership Role: What Actually Matters
Ryan Desmond An excerpt from The Data Leader's Handbook. The first 90 days are not about building things. They are about understanding what exists, who owns it, and what it would cost to fix it.
- Why I Wrote the Handbook I Couldn't Find Ryan Desmond
The books you find when you're knee-deep in flood water fall into two categories. Neither one helps you when the C-suite is standing between you and the problem.
- Procurement Intelligence Is Not Spend Analytics Ryan Desmond
The category confusion between spend analytics and procurement intelligence is costing companies the wrong tool for the wrong problem. Here is the distinction that matters.
- Your Suppliers Know More About Your Business Than You Do Ryan Desmond
The spend data your suppliers accumulate across your brands and subsidiaries gives them a view of your business you cannot replicate from the inside. This is not theoretical.
- Why I Built This: The Procurement Data Problem Nobody Wants to Solve Ryan Desmond
A federal data architect's perspective on how industrial companies manage — and mismanage — procurement data. The pattern repeats. The cost is real. RDMIS exists because the gap needed a name.