2008 Articles

Web Spending Tools Help in Tight Times
(June 2008)
Web Spending Tools
Services Let Firms Track Internal Habits, Select Outside Contractors

Private equity firm to invest more than $100 million in IQNavigator
(June 2008)
Investment in IQNavigator
IQNavigator is set to receive an infusion of more than $100 million, after a private-equity firm agreed to take a majority stake in the Denver provider of business software.

Home Repairs, Contingent Workforce Strategies (April 2008)
Examining Workforce Spending
A giant specialty retailer examines its contingent workforce spending.

Inside Supply Management (March 2008)
A New Approach to Global Staffing
Nike’s Innovative Talent Management Program Has Reduced the Cost of Contract Staffing While Adding Control of the Whole Process.

2007 Articles

Contingent Workforce Strategies Magazine (November 2007)
Jetting Toward Success
Hawker Beechcraft moves quickly to implement a VMS
After Hawker Beechcraft Corp. parted ways with Raytheon they had neither a MSP nor a VMS, and thus did not have a clear picture of its temporary worker. They moved quickly to shop for a VMS and have realized many benefits sense implementing IQNavigator in August 2007.

Stores Magazine (November 05, 2007)
Nike’s Assist! program brings consistency, efficiency to the hiring of contract workers
Nike has created a breakthrough system for hiring thousands of contract workers while also delivering remarkable efficiencies, cost savings and consistent compliance with regional standards to the company’s own value system that recognizes the importance of “human capital.”

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (June 28, 2007)
IQNavigator Beefs up Configurability in Latest Services Procurement Release
Version 7.6 of solution provides greater flexibility to meet needs of global companies, adds tools to help manage more complex outsourced, offshore relationships.

Baseline (April 5, 2007)
How To Manage A Human Supply Chain
CUNA Mutual Group, which spends $15 million a year on contract workers, wanted to get the best talent at the best price. First, it had to take a good look at its hiring processes.

Manufacturing Business Technology (March 2007)
Is services procurement the next “hidden gem” for cost savings?
IQNavigator captured market share because no one was really paying attention to services when IQNavigator entered the market,” says Mickey North Rizza, a director with Boston-based AMR Research. “And they've grown the market because they offer a robust product that helps companies effectively control, rationalize, compress, and optimize services spend across the enterprise. They're also very strong with process analytics.

Contingent Workforce Stratigies (February 2007)
Why Schwab Encourages Vendors and Managers to Interact Directly
Charles Schwab is all about service building relationships with clients. The company evaluated its’ contingent workforce strategy and found a solution in a centralized contingent worker program and IQNavigator’s (IQN) Vendor mangement system.

Global Services (January 1,2007)
Tracking the Rise of Global Contingent Workforce
NIKE and CMG discuss the growth of contingent workforce and VMS usage and offer insight into the value IQNavigator has created including consistent hiring processes, improved governance, global reporting and visibility, ease of use and improved workforce planning.

2006 Articles

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (October/November 2006)
Xcel Energy Gains Control and Visibility of Services Spending Using IQNavigator
Using IQNavigator, Xcel Energy was able to introduce a competitive marketplace which lowered bill rates by an average of 19 percent, generating millions of dollars in annual cost savings and providing an ROI of more than 1,000 percent.

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (October/November 2006)
How to Outsource with Confidence
According to recent research from Deloitte Consulting, 70 percent of large-company executives surveyed said they had "significant negative experiences" with outsourcing projects, and 44 percent of companies said that outsourcing didn't save money in the end… So how do companies ensure success during the delivery cycle?

Industry Week (October 1, 2006)
The Services Procurement Challenge
Optimizing the control and visibility of services procurement shows growing potential… research indicates that outside and indirect services spending is now 58% larger than spending on direct goods and averages almost 15% of revenue

Purchasing Magazine (September 7, 2006)
McDonald’s applies SRM strategy to global technology buy
The company plans to work with procurement services provider IQNavigator, of Denver, to implement a reporting tool to assess the performance of suppliers’ help desk operations, should, for example, a McDonald’s restaurant manager call with a problem or question about a vendor’s product or technology.

Milwaukee Business Journal (August 11, 2006 )
Software helps track temporary employees
Quad/Graphics Inc. utilizes thousands of temporary and contract employees each year at its nine plants, but until 2003 the printing company lacked central management for its temporary labor contracts.

Line56 (July 28, 2006 )
Enabling Temporary Labor
"Our high volume day labor requirements change day to day and from shift to shift within each day. Using IQNavigator7's light industrial staffing capabilities, we are able to easily request our day labor requirements," said Rob Quadracci

eWeek (April 26, 2006)
Tools for the Globe Rush
"Shell Oil is using IQNavigator to manage its global procurement process. "We develop centrally global strategies and execute in local environments in over 100 countries," said Allen Kirkley, vice president of contracting and procurement at Shell, in London."

TechRockies (April 11, 2006)
Interview with John Martin, IQNavigator
"IQNavigator has been doing very well, and has been turning a profit since last year, and we thought it would be interesting to catch up with the firm and see how they were doing."

Fortune (April 3, 2006)
Show me the Money
"Whether it’s buying online or digitizing documents, sophisticated cost-management software lets businesses watch every penny"

American Printer (March 24, 2006)
Quad/Graphics optimizes labor with IQNavigator
"Quad/Graphics has deployed technology from services procurement and spend management solutions provider IQNavigator, Inc. (Denver), to streamline Quad/Graphics’ day labor processes and improve efficiencies for services procurement."

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (March 22, 2006)
Quad/Graphics Optimizes Contract Labor Operations
"Solution from IQNavigator manages light-industrial manufacturing services procurement for printing company"

LINE 56 (March 14, 2006)
Service Spending Opportunity
“Enterprises in many industries have been able to significantly and unexpectedly reduce costs through services procurement solutions, generating considerable profit improvement and additional shareholder value while continuing the same projects and personnel levels.”

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (January, 2006)
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study – Major Financial Institution / IQNavigator
"Profiles in Supply Chain Enablement: New York company reduces its contingent workforce spend and streamlines temp labor processes"

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (January 2006)
Alcatel “Switches On” Recurring Savings in Contract Labor Cost Management through IQNavigator
"Employing 56,000 people worldwide, Alcatel spends approximately $20 million a year for contract labor in North America alone."

Supply Management (January 5, 2006)
Temporary measures
"Are your temporary and contract labour costs spiralling out of control? Simon Vail investigates how technology can put purchasers back in command of this tricky area of spend"

2005 Articles

CPO Agenda (12/2005)
Buying labour online
"Almost at a stroke, says Sindewald, Sony’s procure-to-pay difficulties evaporated."

Colorado Biz Magazine (8/2005)
John Raeder - Resilient CEO Steers IQNavigator Toward IPO
"We had to develop innovative products and today we continue to grow," said Raeder. "Twenty-five percent of our business is now outside U.S. borders. We tripled our revenues in '04 and we plan to double revenues in 2005."

Cool Tools for Purchasing (7/2005)
The Ultimate in Enterprise-Wide Sourcing
"Last month, IQNavigator shipped a new release of its services eProcurement solution, IQNavigator7,… [which] embodies the company's efforts to enable greater levels of sophistication in services procurement."

Purchasing Magazine (7/2005)
Software fits Levi Strauss & Co.
"The procurement services operation at Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO.) in San Francisco has consolidated the company's temporary labor buy and now uses software to streamline the requisition process for workers and to gain visibility to the multimillion dollar annual spend."

Supply and Demand Chain Executive (7/2005)
IQNavigator Debuts Supplier Performance Management for Services Spend
“Services procurement specialist IQNavigator today took the wraps off the latest version of its flagship solution”

Denver Business Journal ( 7/2005)
Raeder's big plans for IQNavigator
"IQNavigator Inc. was just another failing technology company when venture capitalist John Raeder Jr. purchased its assets in December 1999."

Cool Tools for Purchasing ( 5/2005)
Cheaper AND Better
“Why did Entergy, a $10 billion energy service company, switch to a new services procurement solutions provider?”

IT Business Edge (4/19/05)
Maximizing IT Investments
"Purchased services are more complex, fragmented and difficult to measure than goods purchases."

The Rocky Mountain News (4/4/05)
Survival Stories
"Great people create great ideas, deliver major (customer) wins, execute for our customers every day, and develop breakthrough technologies."

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (3/2005)
Pros to Know
“Supply & Demand Chain Management’s Best & Brightest.”

CFO Europe (3/2005)
The Final Frontier
"Procurement departments are now tightening their grip on the purchase of services such as consulting, legal advice and temporary staff."

Darwin (1/6/05)
Applying Process to Services
“It is possible to impose order on contracting for outside services. Here are the pitfalls to avoid.”

2004 Articles

The Denver Post (7/16/04)
IQNavigator Follows Global Ambition
"The benefits are applicable around the world."

The Times London (7/1/04)
Premier Executive: New Software Solutions
"Shell Oil Products US has been using a system provided by IQNavigator to automate recruitment of contract labour. "

Rocky Mountain News (6/21/04)
Contracts and Transactions: IQNavigator and CH2M HILL
"Construction giant CH2M Hill is deploying Denver-based IQNavigator's services procurement software."

TechWeb (4/19/04)
New Version of IQNavigator Goes Global
"IQNavigator6 increases the types of outside services spending it handles. "

Supply & Demand Chain Executive (4/19/04)
IQNavigator Rolls out Service Procurement Solution in Multiple Languages
"The services procurement solution, IQNavigator6, allows user-selectable languages and locales for the entire software suite."

HR Magazine (2/04)
Contingent Staff Needs - Web-based Service Helps Hospital Group Manage Temporary Nursing Procurement
"UPMC cut its staffing costs, reduced administrative hassles, and improved the quality of its contingent nursing staff with IQNavigator5." "

Human Resource Executive (1/30/04)
The Revolving Workforce
"The largest benefit is, we now know exactly what our spend is - across the system and also by facility..."

2003 Articles

Wall Street Journal (12/23/03)
U.S. Firms Hoping to Shave Costs - Look Closer to Home, Not Offshore
"Companies are even building databases of how much it costs to hire workers with certain skill sets in various cities."

ZD Net (10/16/03)
A better model for enterprise software
"Forget what you think you know about enterprise software."

PurchasingAutomation.com (9/03)
Building eProcurement Spend Volume - Shell Case Study
"Shell's new contingent labor solution is proving effective in terms of delivering hard cost savings."

Workforce Management (8/1/03)
A Cure for Contingent Costs
"The whole process is streamlined... You see a lot of savings once you start reducing that waste."

Denver Post (7/14/03)
Finally on the Right Track
"IQNavigator's current expansion marks a sharp turn..."

ComputerWorld (6/30/03)
Managing the Temporary Players
"Thanks to the use of IQNavigator, a set of process improvements and a reduction in the number of labor suppliers it worked with, Shell Oil Products was able to surpass its annual cost savings target in less than two months."

RealWare Awards (6/25/03)
CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Transform Magazine Announce the Finalists for the 2003 RealWare Awards for IT Excellence
"The RealWare Awards are presented to both IT vendors and their customers, and recognize outstanding achievements in innovative IT solutions that produce business value."

iSource (6-7/03)
iSource 100 Award
iSource Business Magazine named IQNavigator to its iSource 100 list of leading supply and demand chain enabling organizations
"iSource Business honors those companies that stand out from the competition with their customer-driven solutions and services."

InformationWeek (4/2/03)
Navigating through Workforce Management: Shell Oil Products is rolling out IQNavigator5 to help automate the procurement and management of temporary and contract workers
"This tool enables us to trim costs significantly and work with [talent] vendors in a more competitive marketplace."

iSource (4/2/03)
Greasing the Contingent Labor Procurement Process
"Shell originally set a goal of about 8 percent savings in the spend category, 'and we have substantially exceeded that."

Line56 (4/2/03)
Spotlight on Services Spending
"SAP is great for materials procurement, but when it came to services, it was quite a lot of money and SAP just didn't do it for us."