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Quantifying The Intagible: How LM3 Cuts Through The Haze Of Partisan Agendas (LM3 Profile, www.lm3online.org)
“On October 30th, 2006 Sir Nicholas Stern released his Review, The Economics of Climate Change. Stern described climate change as an economic externality which is an economic transaction that generates a positive or negative (re pollution, global warming etc.) effect for an uninvolved third-party such as the general public. Practically speaking, you could refer to […]
Moving Procurement Practice Beyond Adjunct Complexity (COUPA Profile)
September 18, 2008
“Organizations that already have a technology-driven program in place or have just recently implemented one still surprise me with their significant interest in the dramatic changes in procurement methodologies and practices. But rather than focusing learning on new and emerging technologies, today’s procurement professionals seek insights into the actual processes that drive their enterprises. The […]
MERX: An Evolution to a Broader Market (MERX Profile)
August 27, 2008
“Regardless of the moniker, the majority of government initiative elemental roots can be traced back to the New Public Management (NPM) ideology in which efficiency, accountability, decentralisation and marketisation are the main components or drivers (J.E. Lane, Public Sector Reform: Only deregulation, privatization and marketisation, Public Sector Reform, 1997). Since the early 80s the NPM […]
Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 2) Revisited
June 19, 2008
In the year since this segment was first published, I have written a number of follow-up articles that have focused on testing the metal if you will of my position that the majority of supplier development and management programs are inherently flawed. What is the old adage about the unexamined life? Everything, including what I […]
Virginia is Ranked Number 1 in 2008 PEW Center Report
March 4, 2008
In yet another example of the value of collaboration over compliance the Commonwealth of Virginia was ranked alongside the States of Washington and Utah as a top performer in the PEW Center’s Grading the States 2008 report. According to the PEW organization’s web site the report, which is designed to assess the “quality of management […]
Strong Reader Response to While We Were Sleeping Post or (Playing Hide-and-Seek with Chuck Henry and Steven Poole)
March 1, 2008
Response to yesterday’s post regarding the role that associations are playing in undermining their own efforts to effect positive and sustainable change in Government of Canada procurement policy is quite telling. Distributed widely through a variety of channels, readers were in some cases “passionate” in their comments. One such example came from an industry veteran who […]
Procurement Insights 
October 10, 2008
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