I had to laugh at this wire story headlined “Republicans agree that debt is U.S. security threat” — to which my answer is, “Then stop spending so much money!” The current Republican and Democratic establishment in Washington would not know frugality…
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Over on Strategic Sourcing Europe, Jean-Philippe Massin’s blog, our trusty European correspondent continues to dish opinion on one of his favorite subjects, cc-hubwoo. According to Massin, “cc-hubwoo’s future is now -mostly- in SAP’s hands and goodwi…
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One year ago today, I brought you The Wit and Wisdom of the SpendFool, culled from all of the foolish comments I could find over on SpendMatters. The SpendFool was also kind enough to leave some very juicy tidbits again this year, but in case you missed them, here are the highlights.The WitFrom Risk [...]
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Pinky and the Brain They’re Pinky and the Brain Yes, Pinky and the Brain One is a genius, the other is insane They’re advertising guys Their mind is on the prize They’re dinky They’re Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, BrainBefore each night is done Their plan will be unfurled [...]
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Last month, the Supply Chain Management Review published The Sustainable Supply Chain by Daniel Mahler that was based upon a joint study to assess corporate sustainability practices by A.T. Kearney and the Institute for Supply Management. The study found that sustainability efforts have started in a number of firms, and that it appears [...]
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Fortune recently posted their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2007. I found the following five supply-chain related moments to be quite humorous.Free Virus for All! A Belgian IT security consultant, testing Google’s ability to block harmful advertising, posts an add that reads “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” Google accepts [...]
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Over on SpendMatters, Jason Busch is doing a Casey Kasem-like countdown of his favorite posts of the year. (That is, if Mr. Kasem wrote and recorded his own songs.) The multi-part series is a not so subtle reminder of the great service Jason is doing for the supply management sector.
In the spirit of plagiarism being [...]
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It’s always nice to have an outside opinion, and the following posts from guest bloggers are considered some of the “best” Spend Matters posts of 2007. Thanks to all of our guest bloggers this year. I hope to include more from each of you!
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CPO Agenda recently ran an interesting article in their Winter edition called The Amazon Effect which, although it asked a good question, did not, in my opinion, give a full answer. It also got one of its facts wrong! Coupa, and not Ketera, was actually the first company to actively promote the user-friendliness angle [...]
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Instead of looking ahead to the future of Spend Management, this seems like a good time to look behind to the best posts of 2007. The list continues with the best Spend Matters posts from August through December. China played a key role in posts from…
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