Welcoming a New Sponsor to Spend Matters / Navigator -- Next Level Purchasing
I'm thrilled to announce that Next Level Purchasing has become a sponsor of Spend Matters Navigator and the first learning / education advertiser on Spend Matters. For those who don't know Next Level Purchasing, the organization represents what I believe to be the fastest growing certification, training and education provider in the overall Spend Management market. Founded only in 2000, Next Level Purchasing has experienced tremendous growth out of the gate. Charles Dominick, President of Next Level Purchasing, shared with me that his organization has achieved a growth rate of 900% over the last three years and 7,160% over the last five years.
Perhaps this growth is attributable to the strong need for better training and education in the Spend Management market. Regardless, Next Level Purchasing is already making a name for itself alongside other educational and certification organizations which have been around for nearly one hundred years. Next Level Purchasing's SPSM certification celebrated its four-year anniversary this month. During those four years, employers from over 70 countries throughout the world have enrolled their procurement teams in the Senior Professional in Supply Management Program. So far, purchasing professionals in 33 of those countries -- including the USA, Colombia, India, England, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Singapore -- have completed the program and earned the SPSM Certification.
Please join me in offering a warm welcome to Next Level Purchasing. If you're curious to learn more about Next Level Purchasing and their educational and certification offerings, I'd strongly encourage you to visit their site to learn more. And for an independent analysis of their material, check out what Sourcing Innovation had to say after looking at their course materials (scroll down to the bottom of the post for the aggregated links to the module reviews).
- Jason Busch
Perhaps this growth is attributable to the strong need for better training and education in the Spend Management market. Regardless, Next Level Purchasing is already making a name for itself alongside other educational and certification organizations which have been around for nearly one hundred years. Next Level Purchasing's SPSM certification celebrated its four-year anniversary this month. During those four years, employers from over 70 countries throughout the world have enrolled their procurement teams in the Senior Professional in Supply Management Program. So far, purchasing professionals in 33 of those countries -- including the USA, Colombia, India, England, Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Singapore -- have completed the program and earned the SPSM Certification.
Please join me in offering a warm welcome to Next Level Purchasing. If you're curious to learn more about Next Level Purchasing and their educational and certification offerings, I'd strongly encourage you to visit their site to learn more. And for an independent analysis of their material, check out what Sourcing Innovation had to say after looking at their course materials (scroll down to the bottom of the post for the aggregated links to the module reviews).
- Jason Busch
http://www.nextlevelpurchasing.com/purchasing-jobs...
Yes, indeed it is.
Jason, I know NLP's sponsorship money is as green as the next, but I think you're diluting your brand with this outfit as long as they continue this misleading and sleazy practice.
Thanks for chiming in -- we are all entitled to our opinion. A couple of quick thoughts.
1) NLP is competition to other incumbent providers in the learning / education space. This is good for the market overall.
2) Spend Matters does not discriminate on who we accept sponsorship / advertising from (provided it is related to the sector)
3) We would all do well to base our decisions about the merits of a product/service on the actual quality of the solution itself. I have seen time and time again smaller organizations make sales and marketing mistakes or overstatements (including ones I've been a part of). I've been guilty of it myself multiple times. We all recover from it.
Just some quick thoughts. What I love about this type of dialog is that we can have it on a blog. It is a two-way street. Of course you can disagree with me, but at least we can get everything out in the open and let readers form their own opinion.
It would be great to have more information and dialog about the merits of the program \ course \ content than more discourse on how it is marketed. I agree as well with "anonymous" that overly aggressive sales or cheesy marketing can detract from an offering but, least we remember not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater" (hum,... there's got to be a better metaphor than one that involving throwing a baby).
I look forward to reading more in the future about the quality and value of various training programs.
The accusation about us pasting a preference for the SPSM Certification in job descriptions in an unauthorized manner is absolutely false. It is sad that you have given credence to an accusation on this blog by one individual who didn't even divulge his real name!
We post the jobs exactly as employers and recruiters submit them to us without modification. There is nothing misleading or sleazy about it.
They see what our jobs page is about ("Jobs For SPSM's" on our navigation bar). They give us the job description. We post it. Period.
It's not marketing. It is a service to those who have earned the SPSM Certification.
Thank you. So how shall we get started with a dialogue on the merits of the program?
https://pentair.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/hig...
or any of the others that are still active.
Oh yeah, it's because it was 'penciled in' in virtual yellow highlighter!
C'mon Charles, do the right thing, and stop this misleading practice. We'll all be better for it.