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Will the courts ultimately become a key part of the government tendering process?
November 30, 2011
NOTE: This post is from the Contracting Intelligence Blog. It seems apparent that the new rules have made it easier for suppliers to challenge. More information must be provided to suppliers losing a procurement competition and suppliers can now halt the award of a contract through an ‘automatic suspension’ mechanism if court action has been […]
Howlett ZDNet post on cloud governance speaks to another Y2K type of fanaticism that is more hype than substance
November 29, 2011
The more important point is whether it matters in the first place. Hands up all those who know about employee group behavior that is wreaking havoc inside the enterprise as a result of bringing in unauthorised iPhones? I haven’t heard of such a case. I doubt we would except a long time after the event. […]
Lack of understanding by those affected the most in Higher Education sector by the Congressional Super Committee’s failure to reach an accord troubling
November 29, 2011
“The problem is that people don’t understand when they hear about the Super Committee or the debt ceiling,” said Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It sounds lumpy and hard to understand, but students need to get involved.” from November 28th, 2011 Daily Targum article “Super Committee cuts threaten higher education budget” by […]
24/7 Wall Street has predicted the demise of the Nokia brand in 2012 . . . if it’s true then one might ask if effective supply chain risk management actually matters
November 25, 2011
I have to tell you that predicting Nokia’s demise may be a little off the mark… they have a solid manufacturing infrastructure and excellent risk management principles in place that have in the past led to increased customer satisfaction and revenues. Here is a reference article citing an amazing example of how proper planning results […]
Can Business Intelligence Save Your Job?!
November 10, 2011
NOTE: The following post was originally posted in the new SpendShifts Blog. In May, the vice chief of the defence staff, Vice-Admiral Bruce Donaldson, noted in an internal report that 2,100 public service civilian jobs would be eliminated over the next three years with more “adjustments” to follow. A recent report by Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie […]
Does your office have a Creed Bratton? Ours Does!
November 5, 2011
The following post is from the new The Remarkable Leader Blog by renown Leadership, Image, Etiquette and Branding Specialist Roz Usheroff. “Creed Bratton has a very dark side to him. His resourcefulness and duplicity are his defining traits along with his at times bizarre behavior and ignorance of the modern world. In the episode “Take Your Daughter […]
The Greening of Procurement (Part 2)
November 3, 2011
The Environmental Connection? What does this mean in terms of environmental considerations? One might conclude that those organizations that fail to adapt to a new reality and are therefore destined to mediocrity at best or extinction at worst, are less inclined to embrace innovative imperatives such as sustainable capitalism. Others might suggest that the newer […]
The Greening of Procurement (Part 1)
November 2, 2011
Cannibals With Forks? “In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – […]
Procurement Insights 
With the failure of the electric car concept in America what impact will this have on the lithium ion battery global supply chain? (Part 1)
December 1, 2011
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The coming glut of automotive lithium ion batteries will make for quite a fire sale. Forecasts made as recently as three months ago predicted that electric cars would become the leading application for lithium ion batteries by 2015, surpassing laptop PCs and other handheld devices. Who are they kidding? How many portable electronic devices do […]