That’s right! the doctor also maintains a resource site (indexed as the first link on the right-hand sidebar) which, as far as he can tell, has more blogs, publications, societies, companies, and events indexed than any other site in the space! For example, there are currently over 100 events indexed for 2008 (yes, [...]
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One of the subjects that is important to discuss from time to time on a sourcing blog is the subject of services sourcing. I’ve discussed the subject of Strategic Service Management a few times on this blog, along with the service management capabilities of Servigistics and Provade, but I’ve never dived into the subject [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. In Part II we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. In Part II we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked [...]
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In part I, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review article, where they picked their top ten news stories for 2007. Then, yesterday, we reviewed Supply Chain Digest’s Key Trends Impacting Supply Chain Management and Logistics for 2008, as identified by the nine executives and academics they asked to [...]
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In his ongoing quest to unite the blogging community, Sourcing Innovation blogmaster Michael Lamourex recently called for supply and spend management blogs to pen a post on socially and environmentally responsible business practices. My response: it’s nice of you to finally hop aboard the sustainability bandwagon.
Michael, SpendMatters Jason Busch, and others chastised me this time [...]
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Less then two weeks after Supply Chain Digest ran their 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review, that was summarized in Part I, in an attempt to answer their question, Supply Chain Digest asked seven “thought” leaders, which is their terminology for executives and academics – as there was not a single blogger in the group, [...]
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Supply Chain Digest recently ran their 2007 Supply Chain Year in Review where they identified what they believed the top ten stories of 2007 were. In their opinion, the top ten list is as follows: Mattel Toy Recall Fiasco Mattel had to recall millions and millions [...]
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Last month, over on the CNet blog, Steve Tobak posted a great entry on when to hire a consultant. However, instead of repeating all the reasons why you should hire a consultant, I want to echo his sentiment that too many executives still think that consultants are parasites that charge ridiculous rates, waste precious [...]
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Today I’m pleased to welcome John Martin of IQ Navigator and Building SaaS.Sustainability and social responsibility aren’t often associated with services purchasing, as most people tend to think of social responsibility in conjunction with the performance of manufacturing and resource extraction in lower-impact and more-sustainable ways. However, especially with the recent trend toward low-cost-country [...]
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