341: The Current State of Telecom Spend W/ Dave Pastore

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Telecom has been on an interesting and unique journey as a spend category. Gone are the days when all that was needed to deliver significant savings was a professionally conducted third-party audit or service rationalization/optimization. Today, most organizations are several years post audit, looking for new efficiencies in a category that is not only evolving, it is also encroaching on other categories of spend.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dave Pastore is a Senior Director of Sourcing Operations at Corcentric where he specializes in telecom spend. It was his analytical background that led him to specialize in this category, plus a noticeable gap in procurement ownership over telecom, a traditionally siloed category.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this interview, Dave shares his point of view with Philip Ideson and Kelly Barner on:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the line between IT and telecom has blurred over time, and why this is likely to continue</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why telecom is simultaneously like the ‘Wild West’ from a new entrant perspective and also a rapidly consolidating industry</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The opportunities that exist to nurture collaboration between team members and between companies and third parties, and the value procurement can deliver by supporting these opportunities</span></li> </ul>