archiveChief Procurement Officer Insider

There’s a quiet stress sitting behind a lot of desks right now, and no, it’s not about KPIs or quarterly numbers. It’s the weight your employees carry home with them every night—credit card balances, student loans, the creeping anxiety of inflation—and it’s showing up at work whether you realize it...

In a fast-moving technological world, cloud-native platforms, artificial intelligence, and smart systems have become the pillars of modern innovation. Among the growing community of engineers pushing these boundaries is Sai Dikshit Pasham—an accomplished technologist whose work spans cloud infrastructure, AI-driven optimization, IoT system architecture, and academic research. His dedication to...

You are, finally, the CEO or a member of the C-Room of your organization, and you may think it’s time to go-go-go, execute, roll-out, and deploy, at full speed, what you know. It’s showtime, basically. It’s time for action, as you know what’s right and what’s needed. It’s more about...

‘He’s applied for the position, so we have to go through the interview process. We’ll never promote him though, not with his attitude. We all know that.’ ‘We just don’t have many in this company who could do the job.’ ‘The procedures were much better at my last workplace.’ How...

With cyber threats and data breaches intensifying across industries, cloud computing forms the backbone of modern business operations, making robust security measures not just important, but non-negotiable. Sai Meda, a seasoned tech expert and engineer manager at MetLife Legal Plans, is revolutionizing the company's approach to cloud security through innovative...

In 2025, the American labor market is experiencing a major shift—fueled not by automation or remote work trends, but by international trade policy. New tariffs on key Chinese imports—including electric vehicles (EVs), solar technology components, and steel—are pushing companies to bring operations back to U.S. soil. This resurgence of domestic...

The HR demands of small businesses are growing and becoming more complicated, especially in 2025. Companies must manage a large pool of team members across different locations. HR professionals are finding it challenging to handle the processes manually because of the inefficiencies and errors that could expose businesses to risks....

Eighteen countries ratified the High Seas Treaty, bringing the total to 49, just 11 short of the 60 needed for the ocean agreement to enter into force. What is the High Seas Treaty? The High Seas Treaty, adopted in 2023, officially known as the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction...

President Trump recently said the US should pay off its debt before establishing a sovereign wealth fund. The truth is, the US is effectively financially paralyzed until the unsustainable $36 trillion debt is paid off. To illustrate the enormous size of the debt, it would equal approximately three football stadiums...

In late October 2008 on a Friday night in Columbus we were meeting with our Penn State offense the night before a massive top-ten road game against Ohio State. Normally, Friday night meetings were spent reviewing the game plan, looking at the opponent’s video, and talking through various situations. That...