Two weeks ago, not being able to imagine what it would be like to be out of content, I culled a top 15 list of ideas of what to do from my fellow bloggers. But they weren’t very entertaining, so last week I outlined ten great ideas that you could use to entertain your [...]
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This week has been a busy week on the earnings front. Ariba released its quarterly numbers and the market appears to have reacted favorably judging by where the stock price is as of 3:13 PM EST. Yet if you dig below the surface of last quarter’s perf…
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It’s rare that a new blog comes out of the starting gate with such momentum of ideas in just a couple of initial posts. But such is the case with the new blog Buyer’s Remorse, authored by Lloyd Phillip. In his kick-off post, Phillip writes that “This…
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If you haven’t noticed, the pink slips are starting to come fast and furious throughout the corporate world. Below are some assorted strategies and collected thoughts if you find yourself out of a job as this recession deepens. Without further adieu …
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Last August, I introduced you to B2B 3.0, which promises simplicity for all, in the inaugural Sourcing Innovation Illumination that also explained how B2B 3.0 was the first technology to enable true B2B e-Commerce which consists of simple, fast, low-cost transactions at true market prices. Then, in the follow up Illumination, I explained how B2B [...]
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Industries asking for a piece of the economic stimulus package are frantically making their case to Congress, the President, the media and the general public. And although the package still has to go to the Senate for them to modify, the largess in the bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday will likely dole [...]
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Former Aravo executive, Jon Bovit, recently penned a well-researched byline
over on Supply and Demand Chain Executive that offers his predictions for the supplier management technology market in 2009. Not surprising, based on his own experience at…
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In my first post on SupplierSoft, I provided some basic background details on this vendor’s products, platform and history. But one thing I should have noted in this original post is how similar — if you peel past the first level message veneer (e.g…
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Whether Xerox’s most recent move of getting into the global sourcing services game ends up being a successful, transformative strategy or the LCCS equivalent of sticking your derrière on the copy maker and dropping off the resulting pictures to the C…
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Last week, CFO magazine had a great article – How to Slash Your Credit Exposure – that discussed reducing the risk to your company brought on by the credit crunch. According to CFO, this predicament is due to:
Until recently, when debt became more expensive and harder to come by, companies generally had a blasé attitude [...]
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