Does it seem like hotel costs just go up and up? It’s true that they rise each year, sometimes significantly. Projected rates for rooms in 2014 are over 25% more than 2013.

In today’s world, the employees of companies both big and small are learning to work in new ways, across multiple time zones, and via new technologies that are evolving faster than most of us can keep up. Combine these facts with changing expectations regarding response times in our hyper-connected world and growing corporate complexity, it is no wonder we often feel overwhelmed. Nothing, it seems, is simple these days.

The web moves fast. You learn one technology and guess what? Something better comes out. No longer is the thing you just learned the thing everyone is raving about. It’s this new thing you don’t know anymore.

Is Your Procurement Approach Truly Proactive? Intuitively, you know that procurement should be proactive, not reactive. But how do you make procurement proactive?