Contracting and Procurement

• Strategies for the Contracting Game, a paper describing the practical use of Game Theory in procurement contracts (free download)
• Evaluation Criteria Worksheet, an Excel sheet that can be used to score procurement award evaluations for trade-off factors (free download)

• When Words Have Failed Us, Twenty notable instances in which language has changed the meaning of contracts (download the pdf for free)

• Category Management Plan, a template for strategic management of procurement categories (download pdf for free)

• Using Observability to choose SOW performance requirements, a short paper on strategizing prescription versus outcome in the procurement Statement of Work (download pdf for free)

• Drafting the Procurement Contract, a book that describes strategy, style, and process for writing a procurement contract (for purchase on KDP)

Data Analytics and Strategic Process Design

• Probably Normal – practice some basic Excel skills and learn ways to arrange cost data and to develop estimates and forecasts (free download, EXCEL workbook)

• Developing a Metrics System, paper that describes clever methods used to stand up a metrics system to manage the performance of an internal supply chain organization (download the pdf for free)

• Business Case Template, a compelling way to frame a business case for portfolio investment decision-making

• Manifesto on Data Quality, a short paper that describes all the ways that data quality may be sacrificed in the data mining process

Philosophy, essays, and literary fiction

• We Don’t Fly, a collection of personal narrative essays by Mark Nadeau (for purchase on KDP)
• Nothing Strange, five little stories by M. Henri Nadeau (for purchase on KDP)