The Doctor at Sourcing Innovation created another cross-blog series, asking a number of us to give our Seven Grand Challenges for Supply and Spend Management. Some insightful posts have already tackled topics like spend data, currency, trade barriers and supply chain risks. But rather than echoing their lists, which I believe are largely right on […]
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I just saw this announcement that IBM is getting into contract management, at least on a rudimentary level. According the press release, “Contracts OnLine [IBM?s application] provides many advanced functions such as multi-party contract processing (for transactions involving one or more Business Partners, Client and IBM), multi-level document routing (between businesses and within a business), […]
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The Economist eats crow over it’s claim that the Nigerian elections should be an example to all of fair elections. In festive spirit, they link to the original Foreign Policy article listing the other prognostications that fill out the 10 worst predictions of 2008.
Among the other predictions on the list: “Bear Stearns is fine”; “Barack […]
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