An introduction...

An introduction...

"Do the things that others do, but do them differently..." I think perhaps that is one of the phrases that supports me personally the best. Q1 2013, starting a weblog on two of the most boringly perceived subjects of current business; Procurement and IT. We still are in the middle of economic recessions, hopefully not in the middle, sort of in the end, but you will catch my drift. The world is turning, multiple times over, and I start writing about Procurement (dusty and boring) and IT (nerdy at best). You are right, but there is a twist... This will not be the next information-flow of articles and whitepapers. Many people are already posting daily messages on that and those are usefull, I use them regularly, but there are more then enough people who google the web on a day-to-day basis communicating the interesting sites they find. I want to do something...different...!

My name is Doede van Haperen, which is already redundant web-info, because you can see that in the URL-bar of your webbrowser.. I am an entrepreneur, a business lead who turns procurement and IT into succesfull (combinations of) products and solutions.
For the last 12 years I have worked in the field of consulting, combining the expertises on Procurement and IT into succesfull projects. Helping customers into a new era of effective and efficient operational execution, using various IT tools (SAP SRM, Oracle, Esize, Ariba, Proclare, Proquro, etcetera) and common business sense on processes. Coming from a big corporate consulting firm, 7 years ago, I started my own business. Different than others, only 26 years old, most of my environment thought that I was not prepared to bring knowledge to customers. For me it was clear: simple logic and bold sense in doing things from your own point-of-view was the truth, not per se being employed for a minimum of 20 years before you could know anything...

This formula, daring to be fresh and new, daring to raise your opinion, built a business with substantial basis. Two consulting firms with separated strategies (one on Procurement in IT environments and one on SAP-dedicated projectizing and productizing) fight for marketshare and recognized Branding under my directions. And fighting this fight, in the economics of today, using the fields of expertise perceived as boring...that is different...!

In my day-to-day work, as an entrepreneur as wel as being a consultant, directing a selection of talented consultants as well as managing a selection of, not always talented but never boring, clients, I thought there was room for a weblog. Writing down my experiences might help others, be informative about the use of P2P, help project managers in their work, might stimulate entrepreneurs in finding their goals, might...

...be different?!

Doede van Haperen
www.lakran.com
www.postulit.com

PS: did you recognize the picture, being of course the Statue of Liberty, but being different...? The picture is taken in Paris!