Bloated gadgets aside, this recent Economist column entitled “When Less Is More” got me thinking in more than one direction.
Especially the poignant and precise quote from Antoine de Saint Exupéry which sums up the argument: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
In my mind this is something that all purchasers in the indirect area should take to their hearts. It perfectly sums up why there is no need for unmanaged 5 million SKU catalogs that need to be browsed using a 25 000 node UNSPSC tree and – ultimately – forces the end user to become a maverick.
Next time you’re looking over your indirect contracts – don’t try to find stuff that is missing, try to weed away the stuff that (nearly) no one is buying.
