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Conference Season in Full Swing
May 27, 2008
Hello everyone. I know that it has been a week or two since my last post but I have been traveling to speak at conferences throughout the country. In fact I just returned from the annual PMAC Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. It was quite an event in which there was no shortage of […]
Hansen Consulting and Seminars New Credit Certificate Program
May 5, 2008
Whenever you purchase a Hansen Consulting and Seminars Inc white paper or service, you will receive a $25 HCSI credit certificate towards your next purchase. Accumulating knowledge through sharing knowledge! Whenever someone you have referred purchases a Hansen Consulting and Seminars Inc white paper or service, you will receive an HCSI $25 credit certificate towards your next purchase. […]
Posted in: News & Updates
A Dichotomy of Perspectives: A Discussion on Forrest Breyfogle’s New Book on Integrated Enterprise Excellence
April 24, 2008
Recently, I had the opportunity to exchange ideas on the veracity of the various models that organizations rely upon as the framework for building a successful enterprise. What prompted this open and productive exchange of ideas was a question that was recently posed regarding the merits of Forrest Breyfogle’s latest book on Integrated Enterprise […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends
The Number 1 Question . . . How Can You Help Us?
April 21, 2008
Over the past few weeks, I have received questions regarding Procurement Insights, mainly the services offered through Hansen Consulting and Seminars. In short, what do I do, and how can I help an organization? To begin, one does not have to be in the throes of a disaster to benefit from my area of practice. […]
Posted in: Consulting Services
The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement Practices (White Paper)
April 15, 2008
What is the key to ESG success? Bridging the gap between sustainable capitalism and sustainable purchasing.
Is Ford’s auto-xchange the “Real Deal?”
April 11, 2008
In an excerpt from my March 18, 2008 post titled Optimization Modeling and the Modern Supply Chain I made the following statement: “The key starting point is to recognize that the term supply chain is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential order of events (in the spirit of your question, a non-deterministic set of […]
Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends
What is the Value in your Supply Chain? (A PI Q and A)
April 10, 2008
Member Question: What is the difference between Supply Chain and Value Chain? My Response: To begin, the reference to supply or “value” chain is a misnomer in that it implies a sequential architecture. This is a term that is on its way out as an organization’s supply “practice” is actually centered on the synchronization […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends, Professional Development
Similarity Heuristics, Iterative Methodologies and the Emergence of the Modern Supply Chain
April 8, 2008
Some professions, such as software developers, regularly utilize the similarity heuristic. For software developers, the similarity heuristic is utilized when performing debugging tasks. A software bug exhibits a set of symptoms indicating the existence of a problem. In general, similar symptoms are caused by similar types of programming errors. By comparing these symptoms with those […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends
Anne Julia Cahoon (In Memoriam)
April 7, 2008
April 2, 1918 – March 26, 2008 http://rememberinganne.wordpress.com/
Posted in: Syndicated PI Ping
Procurement Insights 
June 9, 2008
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