ISM Final Day

May 7th, 2008 at 09:29am David Bush - Iasta

My final observations of this year’s conference is an extension of the previous posts. The number of attendees was lower (I heard under 2000), but the interaction was highly impressive. I think this might have been due to a couple factors. First, the economic pressures that companies are under are showing in the procurement department. Many of the people that I spoke to, had a very focused intent to their mission. There was very little curious banter, mostly just diving into very detailed conversations about bid management and process. Another possible reason..St Louis. I cannot help but think that the people in St Louis were there because they really wanted to discuss and learn about procurement. Vegas could have been an expensed holiday for many last year, which affected their ability to stay focused on opportunities on the floor.

Purchasing.com had a good summary page, which described some highlights of the conference. It seems to be a mixture of press releases and original content from participation. That is really nice to have actual interaction and some opinions embedded in the material. I can’t help but think that blogs have had an affected the way many of the publications produce their content now.

Finally, I want to give special props to Marty Rutkovitz, of Monsanto Co. He was the local chair person of the event and put in a tremendous amount of work with his team to organize this event. He did a wonderful job and everything was flawless. Now Marty can go back to his alter ego, as a television star!

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