Ending 2024 with Gratitude

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Hi readers,

As 2024 wraps up, it’s a great time to reflect. This year, I sent 57 posts, 71,100 words, generating 425,400 impressions…

That’s a lot of emails…

Thank you for trusting me with your time and a corner of your inbox.

Every word aimed to empower you to drive better business outcomes with ProcureTech and, as a result, have more fun at work.

My goal in 2025? To do it all again — striving for even more quality and value in fewer words.

Today, I’m looking back by sharing the Top 25 posts of 2024 based on your engagement.

Got ideas for 2025 or just want to say hi? Hit reply.

Wishing you a successful, fulfilling year ahead. 🥂

On that note, onwards.

📰 In this week’s edition:

• 🌙 The Top 25 Newsletter Editions of 2024

Tap the poll at the bottom of this email after reading.
It helps me ensure I haven’t turned into a mad scientist yet…

The Top 25 Newsletter Editions of 2024

All written in 2024, here are the top newsletter editions by engagement:
(of course, the most “ranty” article gets top spot…🙄)

My personal favorites are marked with an asterisk (*)

What was your personal favorite? Reply to this email to let me know.

1. My Problem with McKinsey

2. Your ProcureTech Roadmap One-Pager*

3.  A Cheat Sheet for Your "Non-Procurement" Stakeholders*

4. So You're in a Fight with IT... 

5. The Difference Between Intake Management and Process Orchestration 

6. The 2 Most Important Questions in Procurement 

7. Are Source-to-Pay Suites Dying...? 

8. Stop Trying to Find “The Best” Procuretech Solution 

9. How to Deploy Procurement Process Orchestration Tools 

10. Stop Using PCards 

11. The Benefits of Process Orchestration 

12. The Need for a Common ProcureTech Taxonomy*

13. Do you have a Strategic Procurement Operations Team?*

14. Avoiding the Process Orchestration Trap 

15. A New Way to Business Case for ProcureTech 

16. The ProcureTech Cup "Regular Season" Is Coming... 

17. Can A Single User Experience Question Rule Them All? 

18. Digital Procurement Is Not a Job for B-Players... 

19. Nobody Cares About Your Commodity Codes... 

20. Why We Suck at Estimates 

21. How to Build a Great Commodity Code Taxonomy 

22. My ProcureTech Market Map*

23. Pure Procurement's First Annual Report  

24. The Most Forgotten Stakeholder in ProcureTech  

25. How to Get Started With Sustainable Procurement*