Maureen Sharib has been a “Socratic sourcer” her entire sourcing career; from the moment she first picked up the faxed list of Silicon Valley high-tech companies that was her target list to “phone source” in 1996 to today she has instinctively followed this method of investigative sourcing using (mostly) the telephone.  She is a proponent of sourcing as a synonym for success and envisions the craft moving away from a dangerously drudgery-paced life-form existence to an exciting investigative/competitive place within organizations where practitioners co-exist within a framework of market research, human resources, and C-level future planning. She owns the phone sourcing and competitive intelligence firm TechTrak.com, Inc. You can contact her at Maureen at techtrak.com or call her at (513) 646-7306.  If she’s not on the phone she’ll pick up!

Rogue Sourcing

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei The hand came up about halfway down the … Read more

Sun Tzu on Sourcing

Is there nothing new under the sun? Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese general. His Art of War is the oldest military treatise in the world. He thought spies … Read more

Sun Tzu on Sourcing

Is there nothing new under the sun? Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese general. His Art of War is the oldest military treatise in the world. He thought spies … Read more

Water Witching

Family lore holds that my maternal grandfather was a “water witch.” A water witch is a person who can find water using a forked stick or rod to find water … Read more