ISM - Day 2

May 6th, 2008 at 11:18am David Bush - Iasta

As normal, Monday at the ISM conference is the heaviest day of attendees walking around. We had a large amount of traffic flowing through and, it did not hurt that Kaman had a magician across the aisle, which pulled in a big crowd of oozing with glee. Again, spend analysis was strongly sought out, but today brought in a number of high level F500 managers that understood and needed optimization.

I have had a nice chance to catch up with analysts like Andrew Bartolini and Mickey North Rizza, both of whom, I was able to speak with for extended periods of time. There was also a great number of ESF readers who came up and introduced themselves. I only wish more people would comment in the sourcing blogosphere, because some many people have great takes and deep understanding. This is a shadowy group, but does not mean they are missing the concepts.

Our biggest topic of conversation has been about the eSourcing Handbook, which is now available on Amazon. Many people have been incredibly impressed with the depth of content available in the book and downloads from our website have been incredibly strong (in the hundreds).

The beauty of it, is that we are giving it away! That is an offer too good to ignore. And if the reader likes it enough to keep permanently, there is always the hard copy available from our store front or Amazon.

Same story as yesterday, less people, but high value and we are scheduling more demos than any other conference I can remember.

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