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!

Thorough Sourcing

“What’s thorough sourcing?” you ask. “We’re doing that!” you hope think. Are you? Thorough sourcing is when you are confident you have everyone inside a … Read more

Unexpected Lessons

We learn some of the damnedest things in our work. One of my telephone list builders works part time at the Y as a lifeguard. She’s a 50-year-old woman who … Read more