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750 Million People Can’t Be Wrong (a.k.a. How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management)
Today’s article continues our discussion of Ardent Partners’ new report that takes a forward-looking view of the top social networking platforms in the context of the work environment and highlights... Read more
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Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?
There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)
Today, our final answer to the question: Do you have any advice for more tenured strategic sourcing teams? What should these teams be doing to prepare for the next 5-10... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)
Last week, I participated in a webinar – Strategic Imperatives of Procurement: People, Process & Technology – (you can view it by clicking here – registration required) that was sponsored... Read more
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Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (1)
Last week, I participated in a webinar (which was really more of a Q&A session than a traditional webinar) that was sponsored by Zycus. This event allowed me to tackle... Read more
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Attention Sourcing Professionals – A Few Recommendations
Tuesday afternoon I participated in a webinar/Q&A session that allowed me to tackle a series of hot topic questions [I’ll post the archive when it becomes available]. One question that... Read more
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SNAFU
Supply Disruption (Candy) – Halloween in Massachusetts Today, October 31, 2011 is not Halloween, at least in certain parts of Massachusetts. It has been postponed. A “Nor’easter” has taken down... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert
(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding... Read more
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Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis
Today’s Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient... Read more
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Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)
Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another “friend of the site” – Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is... Read more